We’re going to sleep now.

I read it twice, standing there in the cold.

He had put me, pregnant, into an unheated car for fifty hours, and now, fifteen minutes in, before he had even the decency to let an hour pass, he was instructing me to disembark at the next station and fetch hot food for him and his mistress, to serve as their delivery girl while they settled into their warm bed to sleep.

At first I tried to hold it in.