Elise glanced at her reflection in the mirror besides her and she smiled to herself. She seemed to have added some extra flesh and it made her more beautiful.

As she walked along the busy shopping mall, wadding through the crowd, she kept thinking of Richard.

That morning, she had left the apartment while he was still asleep, careful enough to not wake him up. She had already mapped out how she would spend today and Richard was not in her plans because she just knew that he would not agree to go shopping with her.

No matter how hard Richard tried to mask it, she could still sense that he was not okay and he was always getting lost and absent minded when they had conversations at home. Somehow, he would go into the room or bathroom, talking to someone she did not know on the phone.

Other times, he would wait for her to sleep before he called this unknown person.

It bothered her but she shrugged it off and told herself that she was not going to seem too interested and curious because