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?”

Dinner.

Anniversary.

Maya’s birthday.

Fourteen thousand dollars.

Three-a.m. crying he refused to explain.

His belief that I was safer ignorant.

Those things required separate repair.

PART 55 — I CHECK HIS PHONE ONCE

Not secretly.

I asked.