The day I gave my cheating husband everything and asked for n0thing in return, his mistress smiled at me like she had w0n.

Daniel whispered, “Please don’t.”

That single sentence changed everything.

Not because he sounded angry.

Not because he sounded commanding.

But because for the first time since I had known him, Daniel Caldwell sounded afraid of his own child.

Lily pulled out a smaller folded paper.

It had been creased so many times the edges were soft.

She held it against her chest.

“I wasn’t supposed to take it.”

I wrapped one arm around her.