I HIT HIM

~CELIE’S POV~

Tossing and turning, I keep gaping at the hands of the clock, completing circle after circle, but there is still no sign of Egon. 

Has he gone somewhere else? Did his father obstruct him from returning to his room? Has Ruth lured him into her bed and convinced him to leave me? Several painful possibilities dance before my eyes like little fireflies, and my dwindling faith in my husband burned them down just like a flickering street light. 

“What could’ve been keeping him away from me?” I ponder about his unavailability as I rise from my bed and head towards the cupboard, going through his clothes and stumbling on a very suspicious object. 

It was a bracelet with several charms, containing the letters 'E' and 'R'. Grasping the token of what seems to be Ru……