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< p > or maybe it will not come ?

< p > I should not be surprised.

< p > This is his style.

< p > I met him by accident.

< p > charismatic, smiling, one who looks at you as if you were the only woman in the world.

< p > on the first day I felt that it was a mistake.

< p > — I have a wife.

< p > but then he added:

< p > — It has not been going on for years. It's just a matter of time until I divorce.

< p > I believed.

< p > because I wanted to believe.

< p > Several months have passed.

< p > then a year.

< p > two.

< p > and I was still the other.

< p > I waited.

< p > because m & oacute; that everything was complicated.

< p > that the wife is not ready.

< p > that children must grow.

< p > that it's just a matter of time.

< p > One night, when we were lying together in & oacute; I asked:

< p > — And if you never divorce ?

< p > laughed as if it were a funny question.

< p > — Don't be stupid.

< p > but I wasn't stupid.

< p > I just cheated on myself.

< p > passed three years.

< p > three years secret & oacute; w.

< p > Three years of lonely holidays.

< p > three years ride & oacute; in which & oacute; re ended when she returned home.

< p > today he was to tell me that he finished with her.

< p > so claimed yesterday.

< p > but his phone was silent.

< p > I stared at the screen, counting minutes.

< p > I finally called.

< p > after a few signals he received.

< p > — Do not call me anymore.

< p > my heart stopped for a second.

< p > — What ?

< p > — I can't pull it. Forgive

< p > and hung up.

< p > I sat in silence for a while.

< p > and then I understood.

< p > there was no divorce.

< p > It was never.

< p > It was only me.

< p > and three years of wasted life.

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116