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?”

What mattered to our story was simpler.

She was alive.

Receiving legitimate care.

No longer being used as a line item in somebody’s fraud.

Everything beyond that belonged to her.

PART 73 — GARRETT REDUCES HIS HOURS

Not because Claire demanded:

Family or medicine.

He still loved surgery.

Still talented.