I couldn't see through him.

I took a step back and asked again, "What do you mean?"

"We're not getting a divorce anymore, okay?"

Richard grasped my wrist and rubbed gently at my pulse point. "From now on, no matter what happens, I only want you, no one else."

"Not even Grace and Susan?"

"Yes."

"Richard," I found it utterly ridiculous. "And you want me to believe that?"

If this sudden realization had come to him sooner, it might have made a ...