I felt my heart accelerated. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/74f178/620x0/1/0/2025/02/09/mv5xdfxta6kv8mD alt = "older pair @pexels" styles = "background-color: rgba (25.51.53.1)" > < p > The candles on the table slowly burned down, and the smell of wine and roasted duck was floated in the air. Everything was ready & ndash; as every year. Our anniversary has always been something special. Forty years together. Forty years of the uptake & oacute; in and falling; in laughter and tears, everyday kicks & oacute; tni and co -inferior morning morning mornings ~ 60 > < p > this time I felt it was different.
< P >M & oacute; Je husband sat opposite me, stiff, as if he did not match. His look was cool, and he turned the glass nervously. < p > — We have to talk — He said suddenly, interrupting the silence. < p > I felt the heart accelerates.< p > — Something happened ?
< p > sighed, uni & oacute; and looked at me as if he was looking at a stranger.
< p > — I have someone.
< p > I didn't understand immediately. The words echoed in my head, but they did not go together. < p > — You have someone ? — Rech & oacute; mechanically. < p > — Yes. I have been with her for a year. And I want to live with her. < p > everything around & oacute; < p > forty years.< p > forty damn years.
< P >I looked at the st 'oacute; ł, at a carefully prepared dinner, for a greeting card, which I wrote to him. On our photo in the frame, which stood on the dresser.
< p > did it all mean ?
< p > — I m & oacute; hang it now ? on our anniversary ?
< p > for a moment it seemed that he could not look at me.
< p > — Forgive — threw dry.
< p > — Forgive ?! & Amp; MDASH; I growled, feeling anger in me. & Amp; MDASH; Forty years! Forty years I was your wife! I thought we were a family! < p > — It ended. < p > these three words were like n & oacute; Ż in the heart. < p > — Who she is ?< p > — It doesn't matter.
< p > I laughed bitterly.< p > — Maybe not for you. But I need to know who took you from me.
< p > stood up slowly, pushed away the chair, as if he wanted to finish this conversation as soon as possible.
< p > — I will not lie to you. I stopped loving you a long time ago.
< p > tears threw my eyes, but I didn't let them flow. < p > — So why did you wait today ?< p > — Because I did not want to ruin you that day.
< p > I couldn't stand it then.
< p > — You didn't want to ruin ?! & Amp; MDASH; I shouted, throwing a plate on the floor. Crashed with a loud crack, but he didn't even move.< p > took a coat, keys, looked at me for the last time.
< p > — Do not make it difficult. < p > and then just came out.< p > I stood in an empty kitchen, hearing the sound of the closing door in the distance.
< p > and then I realized that I just lost forty years of life.