It doesn’t take him long to source a pharmacy thirty minutes away, and he leaves me to hop in a cab. We don’t have a ton of overnight stores here, so he’s gone a while, and when he gets back, I dutifully take the three tests he brings home. It felt like he was gone for an eternity, and I used the time to get dressed back into my clothes and calm myself down, so I can deal with him like this.

I don’t even try to argue and hand them over emptily as I stroll back to bed and lie ...