When Nora’s husband started sleeping on the couch every night, she feared the worst. She confronted him twice, and both times he insisted everything was fine. But when she found him crying alone at two in the morning, the truth he’d been hiding shattered her completely.

Nora had been married to Daniel for 17 years, and she thought she knew every version of him. The morning person who sang off-key in the shower. The devoted father who never missed Emily’s school plays, and the husband who still held her hand during movies, even after all this time.

But the man sleeping on their couch every night? That was someone she didn’t recognize at all.

It started three months ago, right around the time their daughter Emily turned 12. Emily was their only child, bright and creative with a smile that could light up any room. She loved painting, reading fantasy novels, and staying up past bedtime to stargaze through her bedroom window.

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