Three Days After Leaving a Military Hospital With Twins My Husband Served Me Divorce Papers and Claimed My House

Rachel signs quickly. We don’t need unnecessary complications.

I looked at that sentence for a long time.

He knew about me, I said.

He knew enough, Major Brooks said quietly, to regard your rights as an inconvenience.

I drove back with that phrase turning over in my head.

Unnecessary complications.

That was what I was. Not Rachel. Not Captain Carter. Not continue reading …