At 4:30 A.M., My Husband Finally Came Home While I Sat Alone With Our Two-Month-Old Baby

that if he threw the word at me hard enough, I’d collapse. I’d take the baby and cry and lawyer up and fight about the house and never once turn my professional eye on him, because I’d be too busy being heartbroken to audit my own husband.”

Mrs. Parker was watching her carefully. “And are you? Too heartbroken?”

Claire looked at her son, sleeping. She continue reading …