After The Divorce I Flew Away With My Children Until The Ultrasound Changed Everything

leave me: the vigilance, the sustained and exhausting alertness that had been the price of those six months of counting. It was done. The audit was complete. Every number accounted for, every entry verified, the books finally balanced.

The woman they had dismissed at 10:03 on a Tuesday morning was sitting in a kitchen in London watching her children continue reading …