Aryyah stood outside the rehabilitation unit for fifteen minutes, one hand protectively on her six-month belly while the other gripped the doorframe, gathering courage to walk through and face the man she'd once married who was now, according to Alex's careful descriptions, profoundly disabled and trapped in his own body.

The pregnancy made everything more complicated; she'd discovered it weeks after Jackson filed for divorce, after their marriage had already imploded spectacularly, and the ...