I intended to divorce my wife, until I happened to overhear her confiding in her mother

to me. Last night, I heard him crying in the bathroom. I wanted to walk inside, hold him, and tell him everything. But I was terrified.”

“Terrified of what?”

“That the surgery will fail and the last thing I see in his eyes will be the moment all his hope disappears.”

The envelope slipped from Nathan’s fingers.

It landed on the floor outside the door.

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