The ATM Husband's Reckoning

hadn't heard in two years, not since C

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riers, one i

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severe anxiety, she' d said, pregnancy

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oy and a girl." She set the carriers down,

aced, confusion and a sickeni

discussing the weather. "I can't handle childcare wi

of prioritizing her, her family, putting my dream of Berlin on

now

ed. Child-free.

"Things change, Ethan. And th

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ancer two years ago, the reason she needed this "fellowship" – to be near h

said he w

eyes. "This was his dying wish. To have children. I was hi

e words echoed in

r tone sharpening. "A ready-made family. No mo

ed me to raise her children with another

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be stressed with newborn

ound terrifying. This wasn't Chloe, the woman I marri