Five Years Gone My Husband's Deadly Betrayal

The year I was released from prison, I'd served five years of someone else's sentence.

Good behavior got me out a year early. On the day I walked free, I took what was left of my savings from before the conviction and bought a designer watch. It was our wedding anniversary, and I wanted to surprise my husband.

I stood outside the gates of the university where he taught, waiting.

A security guard stepped in front of me. "Who are you here to see?"

"Stewart Matthews. My husband."

I smiled and offered him a cigarette. "Today's our wedding anniversary. I wanted to surprise him."