My Mother-In-Law Said Six Words He Wasn’t Ready to Hear

asked again.

She gave him a name.

Derek Haines.

I’d met Derek twice. Olivia’s cousin’s friend, supposedly. Tall, reddish beard, bad handshake. Once at a rooftop bar downtown. Once at a charity golf thing Nathan dragged me to because he liked introducing me to people as “the real brain in the marriage” whenever he wanted to sound generous in public.

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