Some did.

Others drifted away because they didn’t know what to say.

Colton became the person who knew every appointment, every cupboard, every wrong turn.

I used to consider that devotion proof our marriage could survive anything.

Then I began to wonder whether we had stopped being partners because both of us had accepted that I would always need him more than he needed me.

The following Thursday, Evelyn’s investigator found Harbor Vale Services in the state business registry.