I Went to Surprise My Husband at Work—His Colleague Looked at Me With Tears and Asked, “He Hasn’t Told You Anything, Has He?”

“Garrett might want—”

“No.”

The pie had spent eleven hours at room temperature in a hospital.

We had enough problems.

Patrick threw it away.

Years later, Garrett still joked:

“The most tragic casualty of the entire investigation.”

Maya always answered: