Chapter 152

Cassie

I’m a terrible wife.

The night sky glitters above me, dotted with stars as I look up at it from the hospital parking lot. I’ve been sitting in my car for twenty minutes, engine off, wrestling with guilt and the memory of Peter’s face when I walked out after dinner.

“I can’t just abandon him,” I’d said.

Peter had looked at me like I was a stranger. “You did before.”

The words had hit like a