“Marcus,” she said.

“You… you didn’t tell her about Leo?”

Chapter 9 — A Secret Family

The boy — Leo — had his arms wrapped around Marcus’s neck with the total, unthinking comfort of a child who has been doing exactly this his entire life.

And I stood in my own living room and understood, in one sickening rush, that I had gotten the shape of the whole thing wrong.

I had walked into that morning believing I had discovered an affair — a betrayal, terrible, but singular, a thing my husband had done off to the side of our real life.