I Bought A Plane Ticket To Surprise My Pilot Husband On Our Anniversary

and slid the heavy brass lock into the strike plate. The metal made a solid, final sound as it caught.

“Mercy, please,” he said. “Do not do this.”

“I am tired, Daniel,” I said.

“You are making this into something it is not,” he said. “I can explain the finances if that is what you are worried about.”

I stood there in the dark, my forehead continue reading …