“Jessi—”

“Because that’s what would happen.

You know that’s what would happen.

In six months this becomes a thing people describe as ‘complicated’ and ‘both sides,’ unless everybody in that room hears it in the same hour.”

He looked up at me, and for the first time in ten years I saw actual fear in my husband’s face, and I understood something about him that I had somehow missed for a decade.

He was not afraid of losing me.