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.

you know that?”

“Elliot called him E at the hotel.”

Of course he had noticed.

Nathan had always noticed details.

Just not emotional ones.

Or at least, not before.

Eventually, the boys drifted toward the shoreline, chasing crabs between the rocks.

Nathan and Emily remained alone on the porch.

The tension thickened at once.

Nathan spoke first.

“I know I don’t continue reading …