The Two Extra Seats
Logan opened his mouth.
And I watched a man I had been married to for thirteen years hunt for a sentence, in a diner, for what the waitress later told Clara felt like a very long time.
He never found one.
“Okay,” I said, and picked up my bag.
“Thank you.
Genuinely.
Because now I get to leave without spending the next ten years wondering.”
He came after me at the door — and this is the part that still makes me laugh, in a bad way, four years on — with a folder.