Gemotions

The silence in the house was a heavy blanket. She was going through his old files looking for something. She found it. She saw the balance of the savings account and it was staggering. It made her feel like a stranger in her own home. She had been left in the dark.

She went to the kitchen and ran water to make tea, but she couldn’t bring herself to drink it. She sat at the table, her hands resting on the cool surface. The silence was deafening, the shadows in the room seemed to lengthen. Everything seemed to change after this discovery.