The Wife Who Returned
Seraphine looked at her, this woman she had loved and lost and been almost destroyed by and watched rebuild herself from the particular rubble of having been both victim and perpetrator simultaneously, which was its own complicated kind of wreckage to excavate.
"Lunch," Seraphine said. "Maybe every few weeks. Somewhere public, nothing fancy. We talk honestly, or we don't talk."
Maribel nodded. Something in her shoulders dropped. "That's more than I expected."
"I know," Seraphine said. "Don't make me regret it."
"I won't," Maribel said. Then, with a tentative quality that sat oddly on her face but sincerely, her gaze dropping briefly: "You're pregnant."
"Yes."