don’t know. I was busy. Time passed.”
“Did it now?” Another rustle of denim and cotton. “Well, Phoebe, time has a way of doing that.”
“As I said, I had things to do.”
“Kept a tight schedule, did you?”
“I went back to college. Finished up the last three courses I needed for my degree and teacher certification.”
“You were a busy little bee. Heck, finalizing a divorce must have been nothing more than some item on your to-do list. I can see how it happened.” His voice was so understanding and compassionate that most folks would have missed the sarcasm icing it. The chair squeaked as he settled more deeply into it.
“The divorce wasn’t high on my...to-do list, Murphy. It wasn’t important.”
But it had been. Everybody had told her she shouldn’t marry Tony, but she had. Afterwards, when everything went wrong, she hadn’t wanted to admit her mistake even to herself. And she sure didn’t want to admit to anyone else that she should never have married him, that their relationship had been doomed from the beginning.
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