He Chose Her, I Chose Myself.

Luke erased every trace of Tiffany from their home and repaired the wedding photo above their bed, so Claire dared to hope he had finally chosen her. Then two envelopes arrive on the same day: her prenatal appointment reminder and Tiffany's wedding invitation. Luke drives straight to the wedding, pulls Tiffany behind him and slams a check onto the groom's chest, and the video of it spreads everywhere.

That night Claire loses the baby. When Luke comes home at three in the morning, he kneels and swears this was the last time he helped Tiffany, calling it pity — the same pity that once funded her education, her job, her house, and the fight that put him in the news. Claire remembers every time, because every time, she was the one who suffered.

Childhood sweethearts, married young, more than a decade together — all of it undone by the tears of a massage girl. Now Claire sits in the wreckage of a home she no longer recognizes, asking herself whether she will leave him again.