Two months after I signed the papers to end our marriage, I found myself standing in a sterile hospital corridor

Chapter 5: The Weight
“I thought if I didn’t tell you, you could finally be happy,” Emma said.Marriage

Her voice cracked on the last word.

“You wanted a clean slate, Nathan. I didn’t want to be the weight that dragged you back into the dark.”

The silence that followed was deafening.

I looked at her hands.

The same hands that had folded my shirts when I worked late.