I’m Chie. I got pregnant right after we tied the knot. I quit my job to focus on the baby, spending my nights waiting up for my husband to come home. Even when my cooking went to waste, I kept making sure there was a meal ready for him. But then, I found out Taro was cheating. To make it worse, the affair had been going on for almost a year. He ended up paying me a settlement and hasn’t stopped apologizing since. Divorce crossed my mind, of course, but I was pregnant and had no income. For the sake of our child, I decided to give it another shot. My one condition? “I’m never cooking for you again.”
“Are you really doing that for Daiki’s sake?” When Tomoyo asked me that, I couldn’t find the words to talk back. In the ten years since my son was born, the three of us have never once sat down to share a meal as a family.