I started attending his lectures on a wet Tuesday in October.Julian didn’t notice at first. He was already at the podium when I slipped into the back of the hall, coat still damp from the rain, and took a seat in the last row.The room was half-full of graduate students and a few undergrads who looked like they regretted their elective choices.My husband stood under the warm lights, voice steady and measured as he spoke about narrative structure in postwar fiction. He had always been good at this — precise, controlled, slightly distant.I watched him for twenty minutes before I moved.I stood, walked down the side aisle, and sat in the front row, dead center. Close enough that he would have to look at me if he lifted his eyes from his notes.Julian’s gaze flicked up.For a fraction of a second his composure slipped. Then he recovered, nodded once as if I were any other late arrival, and continued. But I saw the way his fingers tightened on the edge of the podium.I crossed my legs s
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