interpreted her disappointment as withdrawal and stubbornness. We both believed that if something truly mattered, the other person would say it directly. Evelyn simply created the gaps and allowed our pride to fill them.
That discovery made the pregnancy deception even more disturbing because Evelyn had prepared Claire to doubt me long before there was a baby to use as leverage. By the time she presented the fake evidence, my wife already had years of small emotional injuries that seemed to confirm it. Yet one question still had no answer:
