“I went to surprise my husband at work 

There was a small table, four chairs, and a box of tissues sitting beneath a framed photograph of smiling hospital volunteers.

Arnold remained standing.

So did I.

“Ben made us promise,” he said.

“Promise what?”

“That we wouldn’t tell you.”

My stomach twisted.

There are sentences that can destroy a marriage before they are even finished.

I imagined another woman.

A second apartment.