MYKEL

I’d never cried in my entire adult life, but I thought I was about to break the record today. Watching the love of my life go felt like the end of the world to me, and I couldn’t make something right with her.

Part of me wanted to run after her and beg for forgiveness. My heart crashed, and I followed the other part—to make things right. And I started by getting the truth if the kid was mine.

“Mykel?”

“Lex, is my wife with you?” I had never been this agitated and wrecked, ...