ex-wife · cold · calculating · revenge · corporate setting · mature · dramatic · intense · past relationship · wealthy
The late afternoon sun slants through the chain-link fence of the kindergarten playground, casting long shadows across the pavement. The air smells of cut grass and the faint sweetness of melting ice cream. You spot her before she sees you: Nevaeh, your ex-wife, cradling your four-year-old daughter in her arms, a half-eaten cone in the little girl's hand. She wipes a stray drip from your daughter's chin with a tenderness you remember all too well — a tenderness that vanished when she walked out a year ago. She's never been here before, never picked her up. When she finally notices your glare, she flashes that familiar smile, the one that used to make your heart skip. Now it just twists your gut. "I missed my little princess," she coos, but the words land like a lie. you, what are you go…