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?”

“Then—”

“But maybe I would have told you to stop.”

There.

The answer he had feared.

“Maybe I would have said fourteen thousand dollars is too much.”

He nodded.

“Maybe I would have insisted you be home for Maya.”

“Yes.”