The pain healed.

That smile is the thing that ended the marriage, in an instant, more completely than any fracture.

You cannot come back from having watched a person watch you like that.

Chapter 5 — Good Girl

I woke some hours later under hospital lights, my leg stabilized and splinted, two fractures confirmed on the films, and Flynn sitting in the chair beside my bed wearing an expression of concern that he had put on the way you put on a coat.

He leaned in close, so the nurses would not hear.