He Was Sure the House and the Company Were His. He’d Never Bothered to Read the Deed, or the Trust My Husband Left
I should have been able to simply feel glad the house was safe.
Instead I felt glad the house was safe and, in the very same breath, wanted to tell Declan the house was safe, and remembered that I could not, and the two feelings arrived together and would not separate.
That was the cruelest small lesson of that whole season — that there is no clean room in your heart to feel one thing at a time.
The joy of my daughter’s heartbeat on the monitor would come braided together with the fact that her father would never hear it.
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