Melanie looked around the room she shared with Alvin one more time as she prepared to leave. She couldn't help the ache in her heart when her eyes fell on their wedding photo, which was seated by the bedside drawer on his side of the bed.
He had said he wanted that photo to be something he saw in the morning and at night every day for the rest of his life. He never traveled on a business trip without taking that particular photo along with him. How could she bear to look into his eyes and spend one more night on the bed with him when the seed of doubt had already been planted in her heart against him?
She was grateful that he hadn't insisted on seeing her off to the airport as he usually would have done. She had told him she needed to attend a meeting with an important client before leaving and that she would be traveling with Melvin, so there was no need for him to worry about her.
