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.

with Nathan following behind in his rental car. He did not step inside until she asked him to. The boys were sleepy and warm from hot chocolate, their cheeks pink, their voices fading. Nathan read one dinosaur book and one pirate story, using the same awful pirate voice he always used because it made Elliot giggle into his pillow.

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