I Booked a Solo Cruise After a Painful Divorce and a Stranger Knew Why

months ago, I had a dinner meeting in Chicago with a client. Marcus was two tables away with a woman. He wasn’t hiding it well. He held her hand across the bread basket.”

Every warm thing inside me turned cold.

“I hired someone,” Peter said. “I wanted to be sure I wasn’t misreading it. I wasn’t. Weeks of photographs. Restaurants. A hotel. He kept the same routine every Thursday.”

“Thursdays,” I echoed.

Marcus’s “late meetings” and his locked phone in the garage.

“I confronted him at his office,” Peter went