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

to look, wasn’t anywhere predictable. This hotel was as good as anywhere.

“We’re going to stay here tonight,” I told Lucas, trying to keep my voice steady. “Just for tonight, while I figure some things out.”

“Are we hiding from Dad?” he asked, and the question was so direct, so clear-eyed, that I almost started crying right there.

“I don’t know yet,” continue reading …