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knows, or at least, suspects something. She knows this is coming."
    My mouth dropped open. I didn’t, in fact, know. I never suspected.
    "I hate that she's going to get hurt." She rubbed her hands up and down the front of his body, making mine numb. I felt my lower lip creep out. I was actively praying it wasn’t her.
    His voice turned soft, "Melanie, I want to be with you. The kids are old enough. It's our turn. Me and you, baby."
    My mouth was completely dry, except for the sour taste in my cheeks. I dropped the iPod to the tile floor. My hands covered my mouth, "Fuck." Silent tears streamed my cheeks.
    Melanie… Melanie, who sat on the toilet nervously watching me check the pregnancy test. Melanie, the bridesmaid at my wedding. Melanie, who held my hand when I gave birth. Melanie, who I had prayed would get my dozens of desperate emails from the last two months .
    She was my best army friend. We had done basic together and Fort Huachuca. We had entered CI together. A million images flashed in my mind. He was fucking her too? The PTA moms weren’t enough? He had to take the only thing that was mine—she was mine.
    The video was still playing but I couldn’t hear anymore. I got up and left the bathroom abruptly.
    I needed to be away from the papers.
    I paced the hallway. My breath came in rough spurts and panicked half breaths.
    I burped the ice cream. It started to creep up my throat. I sat on the stairs; my tears wanted to come but the ice cream was blocking them.
    I gagged and ran upstairs to my bathroom, bursting through the door, and running for my toilet. I couldn’t go back into the bathroom downstairs, not yet.
    I bent over the toilet and gagged for a second before the scotch and ice cream started to flow. My guts retched and my heart broke. Not from his betrayal but from hers. Him, I had started to come to terms with. Hers might kill me.
    I finished throwing up and flushed repeatedly. I curled up on the cool floor and pressed my face to the tiles. My silent cries turned to blasting sobs. I let loose the horrors and the pain. I let loose the millions of things I hadn’t let myself see. The dam broke and I let the avalanche smother me completely.
    Images of things I had not wanted to see, ran like a movie behind my eyes until the movie ended and my eyes went black. But even as I passed out in the bathroom, I dreamt of things I didn’t want to see. His hand grazing her thigh, the two of them sneaking off during our wedding, the way he always insisted I invite her along.
    I woke to the sound of a man's voice.
    "James?" I stirred and wiped the drool from my face.
    "No. Come here."
    I blinked and saw Coop standing in the doorway. I blinked again and wondered if I was hallucinating.
    He had on a hoodie and sweats. I jumped when I realized he was truly there and banged my head on the toilet.
    He winced and stepped to me. He lifted me off the floor, "You don’t follow orders very well, Evans." He carried me from the bathroom and laid me on my bed, shaking his head, "And your breath stinks."
    I started to cry again, rubbing my head. I stammered, "H-h-how could you let-let-let me watch that-that? She was my best friend," I heaved. I wanted so badly for it to be his fault.
    He walked to the bathroom and turned the tap on. He came back in with a glass of water, "We saw you find the other evidence. You knew he was a cheater. You've known for a while."
    I slapped at him wildly, "Did you plant the other evidence so I would find it? Did you?"
    Even in the darkness of my room, I could see the cruelty in his eyes. "Evie, you have hours. I'm not kidding—hours. They are going to come for you or send word about the meeting. You need to remember who you are and shut off the parent act." The words echoed in my mind.
    I curled into myself and shook my head when he offered me the water. "She was in my wedding. She was with me when I found out I was pregnant. Her desperately, sad face makes sense now. I thought she was sad ‘cause