“I know.”

“Then believe her.”

He took a shaky breath.

“I wish I’d handled today differently.”

“So do I.”

We remained together in the room that had held so much of our life for a year, and for the first time all day, neither of us tried to make the other feel better.

PART 10: The Call We Couldn’t Make

Two days later, I woke at five in the morning convinced I had forgotten Hannah’s medication.