(Samuel’s POV) The proposal sitting on my desk might as well be written in a foreign language for all the attention I'm giving it. I keep reading the same paragraph over and over, the words blurring together into meaningless shapes. Caroline still hasn't responded to my messages. It's been two days. Two days of silence, of my texts going unread, my calls going straight to voicemail. I've sent her everything from apologies to threats, and she hasn't responded to a single one. I don’t like it. She’s never behaved this way before. In our almost six years of marriage, she has always been the one calling and leaving texts, while I responded or ignored her call and text as I pleased. And Hailey. That slut couldn’t even manage to get done such a small task. She’s known Caroline for years. Cl

