When Somebody Loves You Back
Chapter One
Candice
Alone, Candice sat in Jada's guest bedroom by the large
bay window, enjoying the second-floor view. Inside the
cozy space, a plush queen-size bed with a red satin buttonhole
headboard rested catty-corner facing the door. The
sparkling fuchsia duvet adorned a dozen tasseled pillows. A
pink leather bench perched adjacent to the footboard.
The glass-top computer desk faced outside, snug beneath
the redwood window frame. Candice's fingers skated along
the keyboard, sixty, seventy words a minute:
I had a dilemma many married women shared:
Should I divorce my impotent husband or not? I'd instantly
trade in a broken car I couldn't fix or sell a
run-down house that cost more to maintain than its
value. My husband wasn't a thing; he was a human
being. A cheating man, who'd fucked around for over
twenty years, with the same woman.
Candice paused, gazing at the rolling green hillside resembling
the peaks and valleys of their friendship. Jada was
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