My Husband Came Home to an Empty Nursery

gone.”

There was a pause.

A tiny one.

Then Pam said, “Good.”

That word sent him into a different kind of fear, the kind that gets mean because it has nowhere clean to go.

“Don’t play games with me. Where is my wife?”

“Your wife?” Pam said. “That’s rich.”

“Put Connie on the phone.”

“I can’t.”

“Why?”

“Because she almost died, you stupid son of a bitch.”

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