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MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED SIXTEEN THE LIGHT IN EVERY ROOM
Amanda's POVI have been told that a story should end when everything is explained, and I have found that this is not how stories end.We stood in the frozen churchyard in Greenwich, in a ring around the grave, and Constance opened the letter with trembling fingers, and read it aloud in her clear, cold, cultivated voice. It was two pages. It was written in the round hand of a frightened girl, and it said what the young woman had said: that on the night of the eighteenth of June, 1999, in the dark of a stairwell, a nurse of twenty-two had taken off the wristbands of the babies in her care, and put them back on wrong.I have thought about those two little girls every day of my life, Constance read. I have thought about the one who went home to a house with a staircase, and the one who went home to a kitchen with a radio. I do not know which was luckier. I only know that they were born forty minutes apart, and that I held them both.Before I put the wristbands back, I took a photograph.
MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED FIFTEEN THE TUESDAY CHILD
Damien's POVOur first child was born on a Tuesday, in the rain, in a room with a window, and she arrived with a full head of dark hair and an opinion.“Push,” said the midwife.“I’m pushing,” said Amanda, through her teeth.“Push harder.”“Don’t tell me to push harder. I’m designing a hospital.”“Ma’am, I understand...”“The labor suites on the third floor have the wrong lighting. They’re too bright. I’m going to have to redo the fixtures.” She gasped. “Damien!”“I’m here.”“Write it down.”“Write what down?”“The fixtures!” She clamped her hand around mine. “Write indirect, warm, dimmable. I’ll lose the thought.”I wrote it on my palm, with a ballpoint pen, while the midwife and a nurse exchanged a look of profound respect. Amanda gave a shout. There was a pause, a thin, furious cry, and a small, wet, wriggling shape was laid on her chest.“Oh,” she said. “Oh.”I looked. I had been a photographer for fifteen years, and I had seen sunrises over the Atlantic and storms over the Gobi,
MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED FOURTEEN THE LAST SECRET
Amanda's POVDr. Gerald Hollis drank his tea with a hand that did not shake, and told me my father’s stroke had not been an accident.“I should have said so in 1994,” he said. “I was thirty-six. I was afraid. I told myself that the truth would only hurt.”We sat in the front room of the studio, in the late afternoon, with the door locked and the blinds half drawn. Damien held my hand. Rachel, with her legal pad, took notes. Tobias, who had arrived within the hour, leaned against the wall with his arms folded.“What did he suffer?” I said.“A stroke. That was true. But it was a stroke that need not have happened.” He set down his cup. “Your father was on a medication for hypertension. A small white tablet, twice a day. It was perfectly safe. He had taken it for years.”“And?”“In March of that year, the pharmacy changed. A new supplier. The tablets looked identical. But they were not.” His voice was quiet. “They were a stronger dose. Four times as strong. It sent his pressure through t
MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED THIRTEEN THE PAPER HAWK
Rachel's POV“It’s mine,” said Ambrose Hawkins, and nobody in the Greenwich police station said a word.He sat on a plastic chair in a tiny interview room, in his gray cardigan, with the straw hat on his knee and an expression of such mild, apologetic embarrassment that I almost laughed. Reyes stood against the wall with his arms folded. Constance Hale, in gray wool, sat primly beside the old man with her handbag in her lap, looking at the ceiling as if she were waiting for a train.“You broke into the Hale house,” said Reyes.“I used a key.”“Whose?”“Constance’s.” Hawkins cleared his throat. “She gave it to me on Thursday. I was to collect Richard’s chess set. She wished me to have it.”“I did,” said Constance, serenely.“Then why call it a burglary?”“A neighbor saw a man go in. She called the police. She did not know it was me.” Constance’s mouth twitched. “I had not thought to mention it. I was at the groundbreaking. One does not interrupt a shovel to say, oh, by the way, Mr. Haw
MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED TWELVE THE FIRST SHOVEL
Damien's POVEleven years after my father lost the lot, on the first Saturday in September, under a sky as blue as a bruise, we broke ground at 4th Avenue and Seventy-Ninth Street in Bay Ridge.“Mind the cable,” said Rachel, in a hard hat.“I see it.”“And the edge of the pit.”“Rachel, I’ve been on a construction site since I was seven.”“You’ve been on photographs. This is different.” She adjusted the clipboard under her arm. “Insurance.”“You’re ridiculous.”“I’m a CFO.” She pointed. “Mind the cable.”I minded it. We stood on a low wooden platform at the edge of a vast square of raw earth, fenced and flagged, with a bulldozer parked at one end and a long white banner hung from the scaffolding: BAY RIDGE HOSPITAL. A HOUSE FOR THE SICK, BUILT BY HONEST HANDS. A small crowd had gathered on the sidewalk. Neighbors. Journalists. Old men in caps from the plumbers’ union. A brass band, which Mrs. Alderman had hired, stood in a corner of the lot, playing a spirited and rather uncertain mar
MY HUSBAND BETRAYED ME CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED ELEVEN LOCKER 114
Amanda's POVThe locker was small and gray and absurdly ordinary, and I stood in front of it for eleven minutes before I could make my hands move.Grand Central at noon is a cathedral of hurrying people. They poured around me in a river, briefcases, backpacks, strollers, a boy with a skateboard, a priest with a cell phone, and above us the great painted ceiling glowed with its gold constellations, backward, as it always has, because the artist painted the stars as God sees them. The row of lockers lay at the end of a long corridor down a flight of marble steps. Number 114 was on the bottom row, tucked behind a pillar, with a worn brass plate.I had come alone. I had sent Damien the text from the courtroom corridor, in a fit of panic, and then regretted it, and sent a second, Never mind, stay, which he would not receive until he’d left the building.The key turned. The door swung open.Inside there was a single object: a leather satchel, old, cracked at the corners, with brass buckles
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