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.

deserve forgiveness.”

Emily said nothing.

“I know disappearing was your way of surviving me.”

That hurt because it was true.

Nathan released a slow breath.

“But I want to know them.”

Emily looked toward the boys.

“They’re good kids.”

“I can see that.”

“They’ve never gone to sleep wondering whether they mattered.”

Nathan visibly flinched.

Emily continued softly.continue reading …