I was ready to end my marriage—until I accidentally overheard my wife opening up to her mother.

isn’t the illness, Mom,” Elena went on. “It’s watching the man I love start believing I don’t care about him anymore. Last night I heard him crying in the bathroom. I wanted to go to him, hold him, tell him everything. But I was scared.”

—Scared of what?

—That the surgery fails, and the last thing he sees in my eyes is me giving up on him.

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