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

“You want to leave the bank entirely?”

“It is time to transition my primary focus back to my wife,” he said.

“We can finalize the packing in three weeks.”

Three weeks.

That was exactly when the external audit was scheduled to sweep through his branch.

“We need to streamline our lives,” he said.

“Get away from the local noise and recalibrate our marriage on our own terms.”

He tapped the gold foil letters with his index finger.