The voice on the other end was calm, measured, and unexpectedly serious.
“Please don’t hang up,” the man said quietly. “I believe I just overheard your former husband describing a plan to embarrass you in front of an entire room of people.”
For a moment I simply stared at the wall.
My first reaction was disbelief, yet the certainty in his voice made it impossible to dismiss him immediately.
He explained that his name was Victor Salgado and that he had been sitting in the restaurant on the ground floor of my apartment building when he overheard Darren speaking loudly on the phone. According to him, Darren had been explaining to a friend that inviting me to the wedding would allow his family to see “how poorly things had turned out for me.”