He Lost His Wife Before He Knew She Was Pregnant
Emergency motion, expedited processing, Attempts at service.
He hadn’t just filed something quiet and waited. He’d pushed for speed. He wanted this moving fast, faster than I could think, faster than I could plan, and somewhere underneath the fear I felt something else too, something uglier, a bitter little voice asking why, if he cared this much about being a father, he hadn’t cared this much about being a husband.
The librarian walked past behind me, glancing at the screen out of habit more than nosiness, and I closed the window so fast my hand slipped off the mouse.