Outside the courthouse, I saw a woman staring at me. She was standing with a little girl.
I didn’t notice her in the courtroom before, but the way she stared told me she knew me. And maybe, I knew her, too.
Before I had a chance to try to talk to her, Claire stopped me while Elliot was still inside, arguing with his attorney.
“I wanted to believe him,” she said, tears stinging her eyes.
“I know,” I replied.
“I wanted to believe him.”
“If you’d ignored my message,” she said, “he would’ve won. I’m going to divorce him.”
“Good for you,” I said, smiling.
I realized that if I’d done nothing, Elliot would’ve rewritten history and walked away clean.
Instead, my refusal to lie changed the outcome for all of us.
“I’m going to divorce him.”
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