Three months postpartum, I was still bl:eeding when the front door clicked open. My husband didn’t even look guilty. He just said, calm as weather, “She’s moving in.

Behind Daniel, Vanessa stepped across my hardwood floors in cream-colored heels.

She smiled at me.

Not nervous.

Not guilty.

Victorious.

“Don’t make this ugly, Mara,” Daniel said without looking at the baby. “You’re emotional right now.”

I looked at him carefully then. Really looked at him.

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