Twelve Months Later, Ethan Came Back With a Sleeping Newborn and a Broken Suitcase

He took the pacifier and set it on the rug beside the marriage certificate.

“Charges by the day,” Ethan said.

“That’s all I’m giving you.”

“You remember that summer he brought home those cruise brochures?”

“The ones he threw away?”

“He didn’t throw them away.

He was going to put you on a boat.

That house was going to be signed over while you were gone.”