Trust Issues

May 22nd, 2013 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words

The tears stung as they traveled the well-worn grooves on her cheeks. Susan swore her wrinkles were his fault, her aging caused by all the grief he brought into her life.

The stories, always complicated, always full of unlikely detail, astounded as much for their audacity as for their content. After all this time, why he expected her to believe them seemed the greatest insult of all.

“Why should I keep trusting you when all you do is tell such awful lies?”

“It seems to me that if you really trusted me, it wouldn’t matter how bad my lies were.”

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