In October, My Husband Left a Manila Envelope on Our Kitchen Table and Walked Out Into the Rain
Lynn set the casserole dish on an upside-down spackle bucket and reached for the penlight in my hand.
“Claire, a cash receipt from July doesn’t mean he was hiding a secret life,” Lynn said, her bracelet clicking against the flashlight casing.
“He probably paid in cash because he didn’t want the insurance company raising your monthly premium.”
“Our insurance co-pay is thirty dollars,” I said.
“This was twenty-eight hundred dollars.”
“It’s probably just paperwork from a routine company wellness checkup,” Lynn argued, taking the paper from my fingers and squinting at the print under the garage light.
“Executives get physicals all the time through work.”