"If Charles asked you to call me, then DON'T BOTHER YOURSELF," I said.
“No… He didn’t ask me to call. It’s about him. You need to sit down. This is serious,” the lawyer said.
My heart skipped a beat. "What do you mean?"
Her voice softened. "Your ex-husband collapsed last night. They took him to the hospital with a massive heart attack."
The room tilted. I grabbed onto the back of a chair to stay upright.
"Is he... is he alive?"
There was a pause. Too long.
"They did everything," he said softly. "I'm so sorry."
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The phone slipped out of my hands.
Images suddenly flooded my mind: Charles standing in our kitchen every morning, making coffee the same way he'd done for fifty years… his quiet laugh… the way he always held my hand in the dark. Even the things I hated—control, stubbornness—suddenly seemed insignificant. Cruel, even.
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