At My Brother's Wedding, My Wife Slipped Away To Call Her Boss. I Made One Calm Call To HR...

Описание: At My Brother's Wedding, My Wife Slipped Away To Call Her Boss. I Made One Calm Call To HR...
The champagne bubbles caught the evening light pouring through the colonial mansion’s tall windows, scattering tiny rainbows across the white tablecloths. My brother Peter’s wedding reception was exactly what you’d expect from a successful attorney marrying into old New England money—elegant, expensive, and quietly suffocating.

I adjusted my tie and watched Erica across the dance floor. Her burgundy dress glowed beneath the string lights, fabric moving easily as she laughed at something my cousin Janet had said. Even after eighteen years of marriage, she still turned heads. The way she held her wine glass—tilted just so—told me she was relaxed. Present. Genuinely happy.

For a moment, I almost forgot why my stomach had been knotted for the past three months.

“You look like someone stole your cake.”

Mick appeared at my side, his weathered face creasing into that familiar grin—the one he wore right before offering advice I hadn’t asked for. My old boxing coach had cleaned up well for the occasion, gray hair slicked back, his one good suit pressed within an inch of its life.

“Just thinking,” I said, taking a pull from my beer. Local brewery. Peter had insisted. Everything had to be perfect for his perfect day.

“Dangerous habit for a man your age, Danny.” Mick followed my gaze to Erica. “Especially when it involves the missus.”

I didn’t answer. What was I supposed to say? That my wife of nearly two decades felt like she was slipping through my fingers, grain by grain? That she’d missed our anniversary dinner last month because of a “hospital emergency” that turned out to be a staff party—one I’d stumbled across later on Instagram? That she’d started guarding her phone like it contained state secrets?

Across the room, Erica laughed again, unaware—or unwilling to notice—that I was standing there, holding a beer I didn’t want, watching a marriage I wasn’t sure I still recognized.

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