the question. Daniel wanted Rachel and also wanted me indefinitely waiting in grief, still facing the door he’d left through. He took his coats and departed.
Forty-three minutes later, as I subsequently learned from a timestamp, he reserved a Hawthorne king room for two adults from Friday night through Sunday morning. The next day our joint Visa registered $612.18. At my desk, I stared at the alert before calling Melissa.
“What happened?”
“How do you know something happened?”
“You never call at ten seventeen on a Tuesday to discuss
