My Politician Husband Left Me During an Emergency Delivery—Four Days Later, He Went on TV and Lied About Where He’d Been

I still trusted my husband.

Intelligence does not make betrayal impossible.

Access does.

PART 19 — HOPE

Hope had surgery at twelve days old.

Minor by adult standards.

Terrifying when the patient weighed barely more than two pounds.

I sat beside her incubator.

Julian requested permission to visit.

I said yes.