She had just given birth, but she kept saying her back hurt. Her husband told her she was just acting cute. But when he happened to watch the camera, his world colla:psed…

in her mind. He hadn’t seen her. Not really. Not when it mattered. The silence between them was thicker now, the kind of silence that piled up over months of unspoken things, until it felt like a wall that would be impossible to climb.

Carol had returned to help, and though she had no words of reproach for Ethan, she was too sharp-eyed to ignore the continue reading …