I smiled on the day my husband finalized our divorce and married the woman he had been seeing behind my back while I was eight months pregnant.

herself.

Nathan looked surprised when he saw her.

Emily simply said, “The boys like books.”

Chloe had brought them a beautifully illustrated atlas of sea creatures.

Elliot gasped. “A squid map!”

Chloe smiled genuinely for the first time Emily had ever witnessed.

“Exactly.”

Later, Chloe stood with Emily by the fence while Nathan organized a treasure hunt with continue reading …