Chapter 4No Secondhand Vows
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I closed the app and looked up at him. He was staring at his phone, a soft, happy smile on his face.
My heart seized. On pure instinct, I lunged across the table and snatched the phone from his hand.
He was watching the video from his proposal a year ago.
A flicker of surprise crossed his face, quickly replaced by an amused grin. “What’s this? We’re about to get married, and you’re already doing surprise inspections?”
His passcode was my birthday. My fingerprint was saved in his phone. He left it lying around when he showered. He was so open, so transparent, that I’d never had a reason to doubt him. He was calm now because he was certain there was nothing incriminating on that phone for me to find.
I forced a laugh. “I just wanted to watch the video again.”
“Silly,” he said gently. “You have a copy on your phone, remember? You said you wanted to show it to our kids when we’re old.”
The promise of growing old together still echoed in my ears, but a chasm had just opened up in our relationship.