They had no idea what was waiting for them at sunrise.

Chapter 2 — The Footage

The attending physician came out of the ER with a grim face.

“Your wife has severe malnutrition, severe hypoglycemia, an infection in her surgical wound, and early signs of postpartum depression,” he said.

“If you’d brought her in a few hours later, she could have slipped into a coma.”

I didn’t try to defend myself.

I’d been working fourteen-hour days in Germany, believing that wiring money was enough to make me a good husband.

Sitting in that hallway, I understood that my absence and my blind trust had nearly killed my wife.