A Flight Delay Stranded Me at the Airport, Where I Found the Ex Who Vanished Six Years Ago Asleep With Two Boys Who Had My Eyes
I should have made one phone call to you, and I told myself I didn’t need to, because it was easier not to.”
“Yes,” I said quietly.
“You should have.”
My mother did not stay to hear the rest of it.
She turned, without another word, without a glance at her grandsons, and she walked away toward the terminal exit, her back straight, her chin high, a woman who had decided that the way to survive the collapse of everything was to refuse, to the very end, to look at it.
Chapter 14 — Are You Really Our Dad