He left his pregnant wife for his mistress, then came back asking if she had given birth. The nurse stared at him and said, Your wife took the baby and vanished 15 days ago.

and sobbing because I would not pick up. She described driving through traffic while Olivia screamed into a towel. She described signing paperwork because my wife was too scared and in too much pain to think straight.

I stared down at the table.

I had always pictured betrayal as something loud. An affair exposed. A door slammed. A dramatic goodbye.

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