apart.” Rachel heard a different justification: he had remained with me solely to spare the children pain. Apparently he had spent years shielding two grown adults from news they learned within forty-eight hours anyway.
The simpler explanation was his affair with Rachel, which had lasted at least nine months. I could establish that from card statements, dining receipts, parking payments, hotel bookings, and a screenshot he had accidentally synchronized with our family tablet. In the picture, Rachel sat in Daniel’s SUV wearing his sunglasses. It wasn’t explicit, but the attached
