Joanne Brennan — The Husband Who Thought He Could Come Home
I let it go to voicemail.
The message was from Roger, standing somewhere beside a gas pump.
His voice sounded unfamiliar without its usual certainty.
“Joanne, I was wrong to arrive like that.
But you know me.
You know I don’t handle being alone.
Please call.”
I listened twice, not because I intended to answer, but because he had named something neither of us had acknowledged before.