Unfaithful. I Will Be Able to Leave

“Diana, let’s talk,” her husband stepped toward me, and I flinched back like from a poisonous snake.

“About what? You and my friend! How could you?!

“And what did you expect, Diana? You basically abandoned me. I became needed—so I could earn money for you and for the child and everything. And I endured. I endured for a long time, thinking, okay, it’s like that for everyone at first after a child is born. It will pass! But nothing passed, Diana!

“I don’t believe my ears…

“You… Have you seen yourself in a mirror lately? Seen who you’ve turned into? An old, fat mare—that’s what you are. I’m sorry, but no one wants—”

I slapped him.

Furious, flashing his eyes, Vitya grabbed his cheek. He stepped back. Picked up his things from the floor and started dressing. When he took a step toward the door—the horror of realizing he was about to leave—rushed back my strength.

“Where are you going? To her?”

“I’m done with you!”