I froze, my thumb hovering over the screen, and I did not end the call.

Instead, against every instinct that told me to hang up and protect myself from whatever was coming, I lifted the phone slowly back to my ear, and I listened.

Chapter 3 — What He Really Thought

And then my husband spoke, in a voice I knew, saying words I could never have imagined.

“She’s driving me insane,” Julian said, to the woman whose laugh I had just heard.

“Texting pictures of the baby, asking when I’ll be home.