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.

coat hung loosely on a body that had never fully recovered the weight he lost after Emily vanished.

Sleep almost never lasted beyond three hours.

And silence had become impossible to bear.

He was heading for the exit when a burst of laughter froze him in place.

Not just any laughter.

A child laughing.

Clear.

Carefree.

Painfully familiar.

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