my name.
That evening, I told Raymond what had happened.
His reaction was immediate.
“Have you completely lost your mind?” he shouted through the phone. “You married a dying man you barely know?”
“I have known Thomas longer than I have known you.”
“You’re being manipulated,” Raymond snapped. “Some stranger sees an elderly nurse with a pension and convinces her to marry him. You need to get the marriage annulled immediately.”
“No.”
“Nancy, you don’t understand what you’ve done.”
“I understand perfectly.”
I ended the call.
One month later, Thomas
