For Three Years, I Believed My Wife Had Abandoned Me After My Accident—Then I Found Her Holding Our Son and Learned My Mother Had Told Her I Was Dead

“I need to finish.”

“You’ve been reading it for four hours.”

I looked toward the clock.

She was right.

Chloe sat opposite me.

“You can’t recover our marriage by spending every evening trying to destroy your mother.”

I looked down.

She continued.