Kate felt the world shatter around her, each piece of her heart falling like shards of glass onto the polished floor beneath their feet. Mark’s words echoed in her mind, mocking her trust and love. She stumbled to her feet, needing space, air, something to ground her in this unexpected nightmare.
The room seemed to close in, the walls that had once cradled her dreams now feeling like a cage. She walked out onto the terrace, the cool evening breeze doing little to calm the storm within her. The lake, their supposed paradise, lay still and silent, oblivious to the human turmoil it overlooked.
Kate spent the night tossing and turning, the thought of Mark’s betrayal like a relentless drumbeat in her head. How could she have missed the signs?
