A second chance only gives you a chance to do better with what remains.
“Go,” I told him.
He joined them.
I stood behind Nora as she lifted her phone.
The triplets crowded together.
Adam stood cautiously beside Ashton until Andy grabbed his sleeve and pulled him closer.
“Dude, you’re in the picture. Commit.”
Everyone laughed.
The camera flashed.
And strangely, I felt peaceful.
Not because everything had been repaired.
It hadn’t.
Not because Adam had received some terrible punishment.
He hadn’t.
His consequence was simpler.
He had to live with the knowledge that the three people he should have known from their first breath had grown into extraordinary human beings without him.
And now, if he wanted even a small place in their lives, he had to earn it one ordinary day at a time.
As for me?
I no longer think of myself as the woman whose husband
