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

after the neighbor saw me, Ryan called from an unknown number.

I answered because Lila had warned me he might.

“Is it true?” he asked.

No greeting.

No apology.

His voice sounded strained in a way I had never heard before.

“Is what true?”

“Don’t do that, Mariana.” He inhaled sharply. “Do you have children?”

I looked across the living room.

Lucia was asleep in continue reading …