The worst-case scenario Christopher Robinson ever conceived in his life was to keep things going as they are, marrying Amelia Cobb was his last resort.
Because she's not one for words, because she likes to be in control, because she's weak, and poses no threat to him.
But Evelyn Cobb was the unexpected delight in his life.
She was smart, assertive, tactful, strategic... she possessed too many virtues.
Yet, having faced less hardship in life, the favored one fell from grace and took a year to dispel her discontent from within.
On June 29, 2010, Christopher Robinson, cigarette in hand, opened his room door.
Gazing at his wife standing at the doorway, holding a cake, smiling brightly at him.
The long and seemingly endless hotel corridor lay behind her as a backdrop.
