Plastic Rose, The Best Wife Trophy

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It was our eighth wedding anniversary.

I was stuck in the hospital when his gift arrived.

It was a plastic rose and a cheap trophy that read 'Best Wife'.

I glanced at the crummy black plastic bag holding these pathetic items.

Without hesitation, I hit send on the divorce papers I'd been keeping on my phone for so long.

A second later, my phone rang.

It was the secretary of my husband, Cole.

"Mrs. Miller, I'm so sorry. I picked out the gifts myself. I thought it was the thought that cou