He had taken a secret affair and converted it, with his mother’s help, into a fully executed backup wedding — a contingency plan, filed and paid for, in case his suspicion about my character turned out to be right.

And then he had used the one morning I saved a child’s life as the proof.

“You’re unbelievable,” I said, and I hung up before he could offer one more excuse, and I found that I did not feel destroyed.

I felt, for the first time in two years, like I could breathe.

Chapter 11 — Favorite Doctor in the World

That afternoon I went to St.