The husband i imagined
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## Chapter Four: Grace's News
Grace called them both into the kitchen on a Sunday afternoon with the particular formality she usually reserved for genuine emergencies, and Elena felt her stomach drop the moment she saw Grace's face — pale, composed in a way that looked deliberately held together rather than naturally calm.
"I don't want either of you to overreact," Grace said, before either of them could ask, "which I recognize is an impossible request given the family I've raised, but I'm going to make it anyway. I had some tests done last month. There's a growth. It's being monitored. The doctors are optimistic, and I intend to be exactly as optimistic as they are, and I need the two o