Chapter 383

There was no answer from inside. He leaned his head against the door and tried to see if he could hear any movement from inside. There was no light coming from under the door and there was no sound inside. Had he jumped to conclusions? Maybe she hadn’t heard anything incriminating. Maybe she had just been tired and hadn’t wanted to interrupt him. With hope burning inside him, he headed back down to his car and took off for home, praying that she had simply been too tired to wait for him and had gone home. To his home. To the home that he had one day planned for them to raise their family in. Please God let her be there. Let her be tucked up in his bed with all that golden hair spread out over the pillows. The house was dark when he pulled into the driveway. He parked and bounded up the stairs, unlocking the door and crossing the threshold. He could smell her perfume. It lingered in the foyer and it was one of the things he looked forward to whenever he stepped into his house. He breath