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I got home after nine days on the road, and the house felt wrong the second I stepped inside.<\/p>\n

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Not messy-wrong. Not \u201csomeone forgot to take out the trash\u201d wrong.<\/p>\n

Hollow-wrong.<\/p>\n

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My phone buzzed the moment the plane hit the runway. David\u2019s name lit up my screen like it belonged there.<\/p>\n

The message wasn\u2019t a welcome-home. It wasn\u2019t even a lie dressed up as love.<\/p>\n

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It was a victory lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m headed to Hawaii with the most beautiful woman in the world\u2014enjoy being alone with no money! We took your savings and everything in the house that mattered. You can keep the bare walls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I stared at it until my eyes burned, like if I looked long enough the words would rearrange themselves into something less cruel.<\/p>\n

Every extra dollar I\u2019d made on this trip was supposed to go toward IVF. I\u2019d skipped meals, picked up overtime, stayed late, smiled through exhaustion, because I believed we were building something. Because I believed he was still on my side.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t reply. I wasn\u2019t going to hand him my panic in a neat little bubble.<\/p>\n

I drove straight home.<\/p>\n

The lock looked\u2026 off. Scratched. Like someone had tried to muscle their way in with a tool and didn\u2019t care what they ruined in the process. My hand hesitated on the knob, and for one stupid second I hoped I\u2019d opened the wrong door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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