The hardest moment came when my eighteen-year-old daughter approached me one evening.
“You need to tell them the truth, Mom. Dad isn’t coming home. He left us for Lily.” She said the name like it burned.
“How do you know that?”
She gave me a grim look. “Everyone knows, Mom. Haven’t you heard?”
“Heard what?”
“Dad and Mark had a huge fight on the lawn outside Mark’s house. The neighbors heard everything. Mark told Dad he never wanted to see him again, that he’d betrayed his trust.”
I buried my face in my hands. “I’ve noticed people staring at me at the grocery store, but… everyone knows?”
“Everyone. I understand why you don’t want to tell Edie, Josh, Tyler, and Sam everything, but they need to know he’s not coming back.”
The next day, I sat the kids down.
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