Love, Cherish, Obey
After a year of married loneliness, a wife finally sees her husband's true face.
Ada Verraine wrung her hands and fiddled with her hair, then scolded herself silently for being so unstrung. Her husband’s door, a heavy slab of carved cedar decorated with floral and oceanic patterns, was closed as always, yet today it seemed more forbidding than ever before. For all its solidity, she could almost see through the wood and spy James sitting behind his desk, absorbed in his work. Ignoring her, as he had do...