After a luxury vacation with his model mistress, he came home—only to discover his wife had changed in ways he never expected

is a difference, though pain does not always understand that at first.

The affair revealed itself by accident.

Elena was standing in line at a small pharmacy near her apartment, one hand supporting the base of her belly, the other holding a bottle of prenatal vitamins she no longer believed did much except give her something to control. The air smelled continue reading …