I Married My Husband in the House He Shared with His Late Wife – but on Our Wedding Night, I Found a Letter Taped Inside My Nightstand

Mia felt the tension, too. She played with her cereal, eating nothing, and kept her gaze down.

When Matthew kissed me goodbye before work, his lips barely grazed my cheek. I watched him walk down the path, and I knew he must’ve taken the letter.

Why else would he be acting so strangely?

Overnight, my beautiful, gentle Matthew had become a stranger. I needed to figure out my next steps.

Should I confront him? How could I trust anything he said when he’d been hiding the truth all this time?

A small sound behind me broke the quiet.

Mia was drawing at the kitchen table.

I walked over.

“Hey, sweetheart… whatcha drawing?”

She froze for a second, then pushed the paper toward me without looking up. The picture was simple — Mommy lying down on a bed with a big rectangle clutched in her hand. Next to her stood a tiny stick-figure Mia with a dark X scribbled over her mouth.

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