Seeing their honeymoon pictures had pushed her over the edge. They’d been so happy on the trip to Hawaii. Everything had felt right, blissful. Two years now and she still didn’t understand how things had gone so wrong. Chloe grabbed a tissue from the box next to the bed and dabbed at her eyes. Damn it, why couldn’t she be stronger? Just smack Merrick upside his thick skull and force him to see what he was doing to their marriage? To her! The eye-opener had come a month ago to the day. She’d woken up and rolled over and he’d been gone. At work on a Sunday morning. She’d known then that her life had slipped right on by and her husband was a ghost. A shell. She’d spent that awful day remembering every moment of the past two years and she’d come to a heartbreaking conclusion. She was married in name only. Merrick’s entire life revolved around his business. The success of Vaughn’s Business Solutions mattered more than anything. She’d stupidly thought marriage would change him.
