No Longer His Convenient Wife
he continued, and his voice had gone smooth and contemptuous, the register he used when he was most certain, "is a punchline. You'll be lucky if you can keep the weeds down, let alone turn a profit. You want to talk about a plan? That's not a plan. That's a fantasy."
He almost laughed — not a real laugh, the shape of one with nothing inside it. "You want to walk away from everything — the career, the life, everything that came with being my wife — to become what, exactly. A farmer." A beat. "After everything you had access to. This is the life you think you want."
"Give it a month before you remember what your actual life looks like," he said. "Two before you come looking for a reason to com