He sat back down.
“What about us?”
I didn’t answer immediately.
Then I said:
“I don’t know.”
He started crying.
I didn’t.
Because something inside me had changed.
For eighteen months, I had been trying to keep our life from falling apart.
Now I understood that I had been holding together a life that Nathan had already abandoned.
And I was finally putting it down.
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THE LAST THING HE HID
The next morning, I went to work.
No hat.
No excuses.
No explanation.
I walked into the office with my head held high.
My assistant looked at me for a second.
Then she smiled.
“Congratulations.”
“For what?”
“Your promotion.”
I almost smiled.
“Thank you.”
I sat at my desk.
For the first time in weeks, I felt like myself again.
Then my phone rang.
It was the bank.
I stepped into an empty conference room.
