part 2 The man who spent eleven years blaming me for our childlessness threw me out of our home9-008v

you?”

“In a safe place.”

There was a pause.

“What does that mean?”

“It means I won’t be coming back to the house.”

“That’s probably best,” he said, too quickly. “Vanessa is still there, and things are already uncomfortable.”

The casual cruelty of that sentence landed differently now. Yesterday it might have broken me. Today it merely revealed him.

“Why are continue reading …