“Family comes first, sweetheart.

Heather is drowning.

Daycare for three little kids is eighteen hundred dollars a month.

That’s more than her whole take-home pay from the insurance claims office.”

“And my promotion pays fifty-two thousand dollars a year,” I said.

“Why would I walk away from the career I spent four years building?”

“Because my electrician work pays forty-five dollars an hour on overtime,” Seth said, leaning down slightly so only I could hear him.

“Your assistant salary is nice pocket money, but it isn’t what pays our mortgage.