After My Husband Left on a Business Trip, My Child Said We Shouldn’t Go Home. I Listened

apartment in a complex somewhere in the suburbs—I deliberately didn’t pay attention to which direction we drove or what exit we took. Detective Rodriguez said it was better if I didn’t know exactly where we were, and I was too exhausted to argue.

It was clean, furnished with the kind of practical furniture you’d find in a rental: a couch, a table, two continue reading …