My Husband Had Been Secretly Seeing My Best Friend…

to woman because she missed her friend.

A lapse. A real relationship. My fault. My friend.

Four contradictory positions in one text message.

I did not reply.

I drove back to Neapville on Thursday morning.

Before I went home, I stopped at the house of a woman named Ruth. Ruth Castellano, who I had known since Lily was in kindergarten.

Ruth was a social worker continue reading …