His Crush Provoked Me; I Left, He Refused

My ridiculous marriage to Emmet Henson began when I took advantage of him at his lowest, and it survived only because Jasmine Pruitt kept provoking me. I thought I was the one holding the script, the one in control of everything. Until that night, when I finally grew sick of the endless tug-of-war and made up my mind to move into separate rooms. Then, at the study door, I heard him speak to his weepy childhood sweetheart in a voice cold enough to cut to the bone: