They were married for three years and no issues. He lost his job and she began to nag, deny him sex etc. The quarrel that morning was still finance; she refused to help him with "some money for an interview". She hit him and left a swelling on his chin and he was quiet for two weeks. Treated himself in a local patent medicine store. Ate her food. cuddled her, made passionate love (yea, conscience stricken, she began to open up for sex). Her birthday was a week after that, he bought gift for her and the baby. Though little but he did. Ordinarily, she would have rejected that gift but she received it.
He traveled for an interview on the third week after the incidence and came back to an empty house.
He thought she had left to stay with her mom like she threatened. Called her phone and it was ringing in the visitor's room. Rushed in to see her with a slashed wrist and gasping. The baby was asleep. Called a neighbor and bundled her into the car to the hospital. She was dead on arrival. It was there they discovered that the baby was possibly smoldered before she slashed her wrist.
The next month, he got an appointment letter -thrice his former pay. But there was no loved one to share with.
