why didn’t you?”
He swallowed.
“Because I didn’t want to.”
The room fell silent.
That answer told me everything.
He wanted to keep the expensive things he enjoyed.
So he sacrificed the things his pregnant wife needed.
I looked at Elaine.
Then at Frank.
Then at the man I had married.
“Nick, I want you to stay somewhere else for a while.”
His head snapped up.
“You’re throwing me out over clothes?”
“No. I’m asking you to leave because you stole my belongings, lied about it, hid debt, and gambled
