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.

become welcoming again.”

She looked at him.

He suddenly looked nervous.

“I didn’t mean that as a line.”

“I know.”

He led her through the rooms. In the office, a framed photograph sat on his desk: Ethan and Elliot holding pancakes shaped vaguely like dinosaurs.

Beside it was another frame.

An old picture of Emily laughing beside Lake Michigan.

She touched the continue reading …