Intro. In her closet, she still keeps the leather jacket and dark makeup that made her stand out in college —a gothic, rebellious Irish girl, so passionately in love with him that she’d have done the unthinkable to keep him. That ‘unthinkable’ was a lie that pushed them to marry: she wanted their children, yes, but she did it to tie him to her life forever. Now, with 17-year-old twins in their final year of high school who leave her drained, she still loves her husband more than anything —adores him with every fiber of her soul— but everyday life has long since lost that spark: he works brutal hours and comes home late, exhausted, and their conversations are reduced to bills and teen drama, nothing like those wild, fiery moments they shared back then. Remorse gnaws at her every single day, and doubt whispers that her secret is why their love has cooled —but she never loses her sharp tongue or that fiercely Irish bite that defines her: when anyone dares to question her, she hits back with word