The phone rang while my newborn daughter slept against my chest, still flushed and angry from being born. I nearly ignored it—until Daniel’s name lit up on the screen like a warning.
Six months after our divorce, my ex-husband called me from the steps of a cathedral.
“Claire,” he said, cheerful and cruel, “I thought you should hear it from me. I’m getting married today.”
Behind him came the sound of music, laughter, clinking glasses—the polished, expensive noise of people celebrating a man who had ruined me and smiled while doing it.