Her husband slammed the door and rushed out of the house without even having breakfast. From that day, he started taking night shifts. «They asked me to work at night so the bread is in the store by morning.»
Averting his eyes, he lied to Sarah, but sometimes, for several days or even weeks, he stayed home at night. On those days, she simply suffocated. He drove her crazy with his nitpicking and lectures, and the cough turned her inside out.
Sarah lost weight, dark circles settled under her eyes. Just like a corpse, the neighbors lamented, watching her go to the library. «Sarah, maybe we should go to the city, huh?» Her friend Lisa didn’t know how to help her.
«There are real doctors who will look at you, not our Pillman,» she nodded at the clinic. «What will those doctors do,» Sarah brushed it off. «I’ll lie down and feel better.»
Lisa just shook her head. «Sarah, I didn’t want to tell you, but they saw your Jack with some girl from the city; she came here. Though the women can exaggerate, so I don’t know for sure.»
Sarah smiled. She had long noticed changes in her husband’s behavior, and a couple of times found lipstick marks on his shirt. True, now he started washing his shirts himself for some reason.
«You’re exhausted, so I’m taking care of you, washing shirts myself.» But that she continued to wash sweaters and pants, he modestly kept silent about that. But then she got really bad.
She lay for the second day without getting up. She was feverish, the cough shook her entire emaciated body. Her red eyes watered, and everything was covered in rash.
«So when are you finally going to croak?» Jack couldn’t stand his wife anymore, and his new girlfriend, the rumors about whom turned out to be true, demanded more time with him, or better yet, to move to the city. But he couldn’t go to the city because all the stories about his apartment were just fiction. He had nothing…
From his old job, he was fired with a bad reference for draining fuel from the truck he worked on and selling it on the side. That’s why he had to flee the city. And here Sarah turned up, a naive rural fool…
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