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Chapter two hundred and three — THE RING
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The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and seven— THE FIRST EVENING
She made dinner.Not because he asked her to. Not because it was expected. Because it was seven o’clock and shewas in the kitchen and he should not be standing for long yet and she knew where the pasta wasbecause she had paid attention and pasta was what made sense.He watched her from the sofa.She could feel him watching. She had always been able to feel it. The difference now was thatshe did not turn around and ask what. She just let him watch and kept cooking.“You don’t have to,” he said.“I know.”“I could order something.”“Damian.”“What.”“Sit down and let me cook.”A pause. Then the sofa settling slightly as he shifted. Staying where he was.She found the rosemary.It was on the third shelf. A jar she did not recognise, different from the ones on her shelf. He hadbought his own at some point. She stood looking at it for a moment.Then she used it.—She plated the food and brought it to the sofa because the table felt like too much ceremony fortonight. Tonight was not a
The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and six— HOME
They discharged him on a Tuesday.Eleven days after the accident. Dr Osei said he was ready. Said the next weeks would need careand rest and that he should not rush anything and that the body knew what it needed if you gaveit the space to say so. He said it to both of them and Helena understood that Dr Osei had beenwatching the room and had made her own observations about the shape of things.Marcus brought the car. Eleanor had wanted to come but Damian had said mum and she hadlooked at him and said fine but you call me tonight and he had said I will and she had made himpromise twice.The drive was quiet. Damian in the passenger seat. Helena in the back. Marcus not talkingbecause Marcus knew when not to talk.The city going past the windows. October now fully itself. The trees stripped back. Theparticular light of a city in autumn that made everything look like it was settling in forsomething.She watched him watch the city.She had watched him watch things for years without h
The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and five — CASSIDY AND MARCUS
They were in the hospital café.It was Cassidy’s idea. She had said Marcus you have been standing in corridors for four daysand you need to sit down and eat something and he had said I’m fine and she had said I knowyou’re fine you’re always fine come and eat something anyway.He had come.The café was the kind that did what hospital cafés did. Tried. The coffee was not good but it washot and the sandwiches were not inspired but they existed and that was sufficient when you hadbeen standing in corridors for four days.Cassidy ate her sandwich. Marcus drank his coffee and looked at the table.“Stop thinking about work,” she said.“I’m not.”“You’re doing the face.”“I don’t have a face.”She pointed at him. “That one. The one where you’re going through a list in your head andchecking things off and you think nobody can tell.”“I was thinking about Damian.”“Damian is fine. Helena is with him. Eleanor was with him this morning. He is the most lookedafter person in this building.” S
The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and four — ELEANOR VISITS
Eleanor came at two.She had her coat and her bag and a small container of something she had made that morning andthe particular expression she wore when she was arriving somewhere she had been lookingforward to without saying so.She came in.She looked at Damian first the way she always looked at him first. The quick automatic checkthat was forty years of habit and would probably never stop being forty years of habit.Then she looked at Helena.At her hand.Something in her face did the settling thing.Not surprise. That was not what the settling was. It was the specific quality of a thing that hadbeen slightly wrong for a long time finding its right place at last. Helena had seen it at the bluedoor and in the hospital family room and across Cassidy’s dinner table and she was seeing itnow and it landed the same way every time.Eleanor sat down.Set the container on the side table.Poured herself a cup of the tea that was already there.Said nothing for a moment.“How are you f
The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and three — THE RING
He was moved to a recovery room two days later.Smaller. Quieter. Without the machines that had been working so hard. The absence of theirsound was strange at first, the room feeling lighter than it should, but then the lightness becameordinary the way things became ordinary when you stopped needing them to be otherwise.Helena had gone home for one night. Her apartment. The rosemary jars on the shelf. She hadstood in the kitchen for a while and looked at them and then made tea and gone to bed and sleptfor ten hours and come back in the morning.Cassidy had been. Eleanor came every day. Marcus came in the mornings before work andsometimes after.And Helena was there.She had not explained that to anyone. She did not need to. It was simply the fact of the situationand everyone who came into the room understood it the moment they walked in.On the third day he asked Marcus to bring something from the apartment.Marcus arrived the next morning with it in his jacket pocket.He hande
The wife I forgot to love Chapter two hundred and two— TELL ME AGAIN
Eleanor came back with the tea.She set it on the small table beside the bed, looked at their hands, and sat down in her chair andpicked up her own cup and said nothing about any of it. That was Eleanor. She saw everythingand made nothing of it that it did not ask her to make.They sat for a while. The three of them. Tea and the machines and the window and the ordinarybusiness of a Thursday morning outside the hospital that did not know or care what washappening in this room.At some point Eleanor said she was going to call Cassidy. She stood up and patted Damian’shand once and looked at Helena and said eat the rest of that before you leave and went into thecorridor.The room was quiet.Damian looked at her.“What did you say,” he said. “In the room. When I was under.”She looked at him. “You said you heard it.”“I heard some of it. Not all of it.” His voice was steadier now than it had been at six. Still slowerthan usual. But his. “I want to hear all of it.”She sat with that
The wife I forgot to love CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN, The Call He Made
Damian got Patricia Bloom's number from James on Monday morning.He did not explain why he needed it. James did not ask. That was one of the things Damian valued about James. He understood when a question was not welcome.Damian made the call from his car at lunch with the engine off and the city g
The wife I forgot to love CHAPTER THIRTY SIX, The Space Between
The week passed quietly.No articles. No calls. No moves.Camila was warm and present and completely herself. She made dinner on Tuesday and Thursday. She laughed at the right things. She asked about his day and listened to the answers. She was attentive in the way she had always been attentive and
The wife I forgot to love CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR, Her Name
Patricia Bloom called Camila on Thursday morning."I found something," Patricia said.Camila was at her kitchen table with her second coffee. She set the cup down slowly. "Tell me.""Nothing criminal," Patricia said. "Nothing that obvious. But interesting." A pause. "Helena Graves grew up in a very
The wife I forgot to love CHAPTER THIRTY THREE, The Invitation
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE, The InvitationCamila found out about the showcase on Wednesday morning.She saw it the way she saw most things. Quietly. Through the right channels. A contact who moved in industry circles mentioned it in passing over coffee and Camila had smiled and said how wonderful and fi
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