Someone Had to Stay

And you do not talk a company like that into changing its entire reason for existing.

You just leave.

“I am completely exhausted too, Brenda,” I said.

My voice shook, only a little, and I hated that it shook at all, and I held it as steady as I could.

“I have been up all night too.

I am just as tired as he is.”

Chapter 12 — The Pattern I Ignored

Brenda’s expression shifted the instant I said it, sliding into a defensiveness I recognized, because I had seen it a hundred times across the years of my marriage.