When Celia’s husband refused to let her open the trunk of their shared car, her curiosity grew.
What started as a small doubt quietly turned into a late-night discovery that unsettled her.
The bags, tools, and dust inside the trunk seemed suspicious, and for days she carried the weight of unanswered questions.
She wondered if her husband was hiding something important.
The silence between them began to feel heavier than words.
One night, she finally admitted to Adam that she had looked. Instead of anger, he offered an unexpected truth.
Months earlier, he had inherited a small property from a father he barely knew.
Every evening after work, he had been secretly fixing it up with his brother.
The tools and bags weren’t secrets of betrayal, but signs of a project built with care.
