We signed.
Outside, Grant stopped on the courthouse steps.
“I lost more than my wife,” he said. “I lost the only person who was always on my side.”
“I was never always on your side.”
I slipped the divorce decree into my handbag.
“I was on the side of the life I believed we were building. For too long, I confused protecting that life with protecting you.”
He held out the ring.
I did not take it.
“Sell it. Throw it into the river. Give it back to Vanessa.”
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