And I want you to move into the guest room while we decide what happens next.”

He gave a short laugh.

“I don’t take orders in my own home.”

“Then you can choose to stay somewhere else tonight.

The babies aren’t part of a negotiation.”

He stared at me as though he had returned to find someone he’d never met.

Maybe he had.

For months I’d been too tired and frightened to ask for anything.