He meant an answer from a person who had no reason to be kind to him.

And the person he picked, out of everybody he knew, was the man he had just been told was sleeping with me.

Part Sixty-One: I Woke Up Asking For You

“I came round asking where you were,” I said.

“One of your daughters was crying and I couldn’t so much as pick her up.

A nurse had to do it for me.”

His eyes went across to the bassinet.