Three Chances Too Late
Her favorite couple's mug, the pair of wooden miniature figures that I made, and placed on top of the TV, were gone.
Even our matching pair of house sandals was gone, only hers remained.
The entire place seemed to have been stripped of its heart. It was so empty that Kim felt anxious.
Right at this moment, her phone rang. She answered it desperately without looking, as if this was the moment that would salvage everything.
She said with a hint of urgency and aggrievedness that she didn't even realize herself, "Julian, where are you?"
"Kim Carey!" Joanna Leonard, her manager, barked through the phone. "You're pregnant? And you got married to Emmett Stone? Have you gone nuts!"