My husband invited his boss to our house, but just before he arrived, he looked at me with disgust and whispered, “Stay in the bedroom. I’m ashamed to have you seen like this. If my boss sees you, you’ll ruin my promotion.”

You stopped being a wife! I’d come home from work and find you in the same clothes, reading medical journals for hours, refusing to go out! What did you expect me to do?!”

“I expected that if you stopped loving me, you would have the basic human decency to tell me.”

“It wasn’t that simple!”

Mariana pulled out her phone and showed him the message Chloe had forwarded. “‘Where is she going to go? She doesn’t know how to survive on her own.’ Was that complicated, too?”

Alejandro stared at