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Episode 534: Somebody's CryingAdria poured cornflakes into a bowl for dinner. Her eyes wandered. She told herself she wouldn’t look at the clock. She wouldn’t think about it. He was late. He would have left the office. Even if traffic were heavy, he would have been there already, asking her to stop this nonsense, to come home with him.Apparently, lunch with Brooke had gone well. Adria pushed the cereal to the back of the counter, but removing all food from her sightline didn’t stop the sick feeling from rolling through her. Nor did the sudden appearance of Ryley, groceries in hand, or rather they had been in hand until he dropped the bags to the floor and rushed to her. "You’re so pale. Why didn’t you call me? I wouldn’t have wasted time buying dinner for tomorrow, I would have been right here. What’s wrong?" "I’m not your problem. Why don’t you just go take Thanksgiving to Brooke?" It was exactly what she should suggest for Ryley’s sake, but she couldn’t get through it without her voice cracking on the other woman’s name, or a tear leaking down her cheek. Ryley swiped away her tear. "You know it hurt like hell when you shoved me at another woman." "That didn’t stop you from going." Another tear, another swipe. "I went because I wanted to call your bluff. I wanted you to be jealous. I wanted your heart to break, to regret pushing me away. Looks like it worked. Not that I could ever be happy about making you cry." His eyes were grave. "I didn’t want whatever her name was, I don’t want her. I sent her to lunch without me. I realized what you were doing, that you didn’t mean it, which, by the way, didn’t make it much easier to take." Torn between relief and exasperation, Adria managed a feeble; "I did mean it." "So, then," her husband said, his voice so irresistibly soft, his mouth delectably close, those eyes no longer grave, but determined, "if I kiss you, you’d push me away? That’s really what you want?"
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