The Affair, The Baby, The Betrayal

e. My fellowship was a success, a capstone on years of surgical training. I imagined

ed customs. Not from Ethan, but

rthing Center. Ethan is there w

friend. The one he said

picture this time, security

them. They said to keep y

who once called me the daughter

hinking. About the miscarriage that hollowed me out, the doctors who said "inferti

to the bir

scene to caus

lready set, co

my new passport with a new name processed. I had severed the easily cut ties already

house, our house.

room we'd painted blue then, years ago, in hopeful anticipa

still

l of baby powder and something else, s

I wasn't even meant to witness directly, but they ensured

an, my complete exit. That