“The position has fewer overnight calls. Actual weekends. Better hours. They want me to lead part of the department.”
He was talking faster now.
“Chelsea, it’s the thing. It’s the actual thing.”
“And You Thought That Gave You the Right”
“To decide where we live? To pull our kid out of her school? What about my job, Ben?”
“I thought it gave us a way out of this.”
He gestured at the boxes, at the hospital, at all of it.
“We’ve barely had time together in two years.”
I Stepped Closer
“Then why wasn’t I in the conversation?”
His jaw went tight.
And then he said the true thing, which I’ll give him credit for, because he could have said five other things instead.
“Because I thought you’d reject it before hearing me out.”
There It Was
He had decided what I would think before I ever got a chance to think it.
