Saving Candies for a Ghost

When we divorced, David said the thing he regretted most in his life was marrying me.

I had drained three million dollars from his business account right when his company was on the verge of collapsing, vanishing into thin air. It took him two agonizing years to crawl back out of that hole and rebuild.

He didn’t know those three million dollars went straight into covering up the fraudulent books his older brother had cooked up to save them from prison.

And he didn’t know my disappearance wasn’t a choice. It was his brother, terrified the truth would come out, who pushed me over the railing…