her connection changed.
Don’t make it weird if you see her.
Rebecca read it and whispered, «Oh my God.»
I felt nothing.
At first, that frightened me.
Then I understood.
Some wounds run too deep for anger.
David had passed the point where I needed him to understand.
He could believe whatever he wanted.
Reality would greet him when he returned.
## Chapter 4: Fourteen days
The house gradually emptied.
Not through rage.
Not with movers tearing televisions from walls while I imagined David’s shock.
That would’ve been easier.
Instead, each