Kendra had believed a man who had given her official-looking papers and a story about a marriage that existed only “in name.”

I was angry with her.

But I was beginning to understand she had been given a version of me too.

Work-obsessed Audrey.

Absent Audrey.

Uninterested Audrey.

A wife who had supposedly abandoned both a marriage and a lake house.

Monday morning, Martin obtained the certified county record.