My clothes and jewelry were strewn across the floor.Photo albums—even our wedding pictures—had all been ripped apart.
I knelt on the floor and picked up a photograph with trembling hands.It was on our wedding day.He had once vowed to protect me for the rest of his life.
And now,without even blinking,he had cast me out for another woman.
***
A few hours later,Lennon came back.
His face was dark,fury burning in his eyes.Before he even said a word,he slapped me hard as soon as he entered the door.
Slap!
I staggered backward,my vision momentarily going white.Blood trickled from the corner of my mouth.
"Meredith,do you have any idea what you’ve done?"he roared,his voice sharper and colder than I had ever heard."Winona had a miscarriage!You killed her baby!"
"You heartless woman—you put something in the soup,didn’t you?Because you couldn’t stand to see her pregnant!"
I pressed a hand to my stinging cheek and slowly looked up at him.Then I laughed bitterly.
"So worked up,"I said bitterly."Because the baby in her belly was yours,right?"
His pupils shrank.He clearly was not expecting me to know.
"You...you knew?"