The Wrong Heart
—PROLOGUE—
from:
Magnolia
to:
date:
Jul 7, 2020, 12:09 AM
subject:
Widowed & Wilting
You don’t know me, but you have my husband’s heart.
I shouldn’t be doing this. I shouldn’t be contacting you. It’s wrong and foolish, and probably illegal, considering I received your e-mail address through confidential medical records.
You have every right to turn me in.
Hell, maybe there’s a part of me that wants you to. I don’t know how to live in this world without him, anyway. Prison could be a welcome distraction to the knee-buckling pain I’m faced with day after day.
But there’s also a part of me that hopes you won’t—a desperate, twisted part that is begging for you to find sympathy in that heart I’ve come to know so well.
A part that will wait for you to write me back.
No names. No personal details.
Just a conversation.
The only thing I have left of him is inside you.
— Magnolia