I didn’t.”
“I told him that.”
“And?”
“And Sam didn’t believe me.”
A sound came from the crib.
I turned.
Lily shifted beneath her blanket but remained asleep.
“What does Sam have to do with my marriage?” I whispered.
“That’s complicated.”
“Try.”
Ethan was silent for so long I thought the call had dropped.
Then he said, “The woman in the pictures.”
Every muscle in my body went still.
“What woman?”
“The pictures you saw online. The ones of me.”
My mouth went dry.
The photographs that had ended our marriage.
Ethan at a restaurant with a beautiful dark-haired woman.
Ethan leaving a hotel lobby with his hand at her back.
Ethan sitting beside her at a rooftop bar.
He had never denied knowing her.
He had only refused to explain.
“What about her?”
“She’s Sam’s sister.”
I stared into the dark window.
“My God.”
“Elena—”
“You cheated on me
