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

like he’d done this before, like this was completely normal.

He reached into his pocket.

I expected something loud and obvious. A weapon, maybe, or tools for breaking in. I expected something that would match the thriller-movie scenario playing out in my head, something that would either confirm my fears or reveal them as overblown paranoia.

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