My Ex Heard One Name at the Airport and Started Running

Maybe because until then I’d half-believed he only wanted to stop the scandal, not the leaving.

His face did something ugly and lost all at once.

Then he started forward.

“Elena.”

Gate staff looked up.

I stood.

The kids stayed seated.

“You don’t get to do this,” he said.

My laugh was small.

“Do what? Parent them?”

“Take them out of the country in the middle continue reading …