I think it would have hollowed the marriage out from within until nothing was left.

Grace’s arrival was the crisis, yes.

But it was also, I have come to believe, their only real chance — the fire that burned the lie down to the ground and left them, finally, standing in the honest wreckage where something new could actually be built.

Chapter 20 — A Chance

I do not know how their story ends.

I want to be truthful about that, here at the close, because I distrust stories that tie themselves up too neatly, and this one is still being lived.

I cannot tell you that Ethan and Lauren are going to be fine, because I do not know, and anyone who claimed to know would be lying to you the way my brother lied to his wife.