The moment I opened my eyes, my husband was crying beautifully. Not honestly. Beautifully. His face hovered above mine under the harsh, blinding white lights of the emergency room. His features were twisted into a performance of grief so utterly perfect, so deeply moving, that a stranger walking past the doorway might have forgiven him for absolutely anything. “My pregnant wife fell down the stairs,” Julian said, his voice cracking with just the right amount of manufactured tremor. He was gripping my hand, his fingers digging into my knuckles hard enough to leave a fresh ring of bruises by morning....
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