MY EX-WIFE CAME TO SEE OUR SON. SHE ENDED UP STAYING THE NIGHT. I LET HER SLEEP ON THE COUCH. AFTER MIDNIGHT, I HEARD SOMETHING I WASN’T SUPPOSED TO HEAR.

Low.

Angry.

My entire body froze.

“…you said he wouldn’t be here,” the man whispered harshly.

I stopped breathing.

Every instinct in my body screamed that something was wrong.

And then Diane answered with words that changed everything I thought I knew about my ex-wife.

“I didn’t have a choice,” she said. “Just give me until morning.”