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

I buckled him into his booster seat in the back—he was really too big for it now, but the law said eight years or sixty pounds, and we were following rules even as we were breaking them—and I started the car and took the exit that led away from home instead of toward it.

“Where are we going?” Lucas asked, his voice small and uncertain but also relieved,continue reading …