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

closer. “Martha…”

She reached for my hand, found it. Her grip was weak but deliberate.

“I don’t want…” she paused, searching, “to be… the reason… he disappears.”

Rachel started crying quietly.

The doctor blinked, thrown off script. Erin lowered her clipboard like she didn’t want to interrupt something sacred.

Martha looked at me with the full weight of continue reading …