I Came Home from a Work Trip to Find 100 Roses Delivered to My Wife—Then I Read the Note and Realized Everything I Believed Was a Lie

panic.

“Mark, I have no idea,” she said. “Maybe there was some delivery mix-up?”

“A hundred roses is a pretty specific mix-up.”

She wrapped her arms around herself. “Don’t say it like that.”

“Like what?”

“Like you think I know something.”

I looked away first, because the truth was that suspicion had already slipped into my mind and settled there like a stone.continue reading …