My Son Invited Me to His Engagement Party — Then Introduced Me to the Woman Who Ruined My Marriage

“Why?” I ask.

She swallows.

“Because Anna… makes a lot of bad choices,” she says.

“Especially with men who belong to other people.”

There it is.

“I cut contact with her a few years ago,” Alice continues. “She lies. She uses people.

She likes the attention. I spent most of my 20s watching her blow up families and then cry about how no one understood her. She reaches out every now and again, but I just ignore her.”

Her eyes shine now, but she doesn’t look away.

“If she met Tom,” she says, “and he didn’t mention he was married—or even if he did—I believe she could have done that.

But it wasn’t me.”

David exhales hard and sits down on the bed.

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