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?”

“You do not get to turn secrecy into love because your reason was sympathetic.”

“I know.”

That answer mattered.

Not enough.

But it mattered.

PART 8 — WHAT HE WAS ACTUALLY DOING

Garrett was a pediatric surgical oncologist.

Lily’s cancer care involved multiple specialists.

Garrett was not secretly administering chemotherapy after hours.

That would have been reckless, unethical, and probably impossible to conceal safely.