At 9 p.m., Phoebe Smith still hadn't returned, and Susanna Smith couldn't help but worry as she stayed in her small villa. She had been somewhat harsh in the conversation at noon. Could the child have done something foolish in a fit of anger?
With that thought, she began to doubt all that had happened before. Had everything been a mistake?
Over the past few years, Ethan Thompson had grown increasingly cold toward her, to the point where even their intimate relations as husband and wife seemed to have been absent for a long time.
Just how long had it been since she and Ethan Thompson had been intimate? Susanna Smith carefully thought it over, and it seemed to be more than half a year.
Her husband's increasing coldness had made her more and more irritable, and Phoebe's lack of initiative only added to her discomfort.
