“The identified residence and business interests remain the petitioner’s separate property.

No spousal support is awarded under the applicable terms.”

He referred to the order governing possession of the residence.

Five o’clock that evening.

I was to leave with my personal belongings by five.

The hearing did not decide every possible issue involving our unborn child.

It did not give Patrick permission to avoid lawful obligations to her.

But those distinctions offered very little comfort to a woman trying to work out where she would sleep that night.

I heard five o’clock more clearly than anything else.

Both hands rested over my pregnant belly.

I was eight months along, close enough to delivery that people had begun saying, Any day now, whether or not that was medically accurate.

My daughter shifted against my ribs.

I looked toward my bag on the floor.

It held my phone, a folder, a bottle of water, and the last small amount of cash I could call my own.