Chloe Ruiz was a fact about my husband’s character.

She was not a person I had any energy to spend.

I spent all of it, every bit, on the only person on that aircraft I loved, and I walked him off it with my head high and my eyes forward, and I did not give the woman in 3B the gift of a single second of my attention.

Chapter 13 — Is Dad Not Coming Home

We walked off the jet bridge and back into the ordinary fluorescent light of the gate area.