do know that I wouldn’t have wanted you to abandon your job for a week and lie to me about where you were going.”
He looked at his hands.
“I didn’t abandon my job. I requested personal leave.”
“That isn’t the point.”
“I know.”
For the first time, I believed he understood that.
I leaned back in my chair.
“Do you know what hurt me most?”
He shook his head.
“It wasn’t seeing you with Vanessa. It was realizing how easily you could look me in the eye and tell
