After My Husband Left on a Business Trip, My Child Said We Shouldn’t Go Home. I Listened

like he’d been waiting for me to finally listen.

“I don’t know yet,” I admitted, because lying seemed pointless now. “But we’re going to figure it out together, okay?”

I drove through Atlanta like I was trying to lose a tail I couldn’t prove existed. I took the back way through Buckhead, winding through neighborhoods I barely knew, making turns that continue reading …