When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

voice came through tight. “Dad. Erin called me.”

Of course she did. The county doesn’t just knock on your door; it ripples outward, touching everything you thought was private.

Rachel said, “You can’t keep doing this.”

I stared at the sink. At the sponge. At the ordinariness of it all. “I didn’t ask you to solve my marriage over the phone.”

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