Do What You Want
"Once you've said everything you came to say, we should finalize the divorce," I said.
"Then I'll spend the rest of my life talking and never let it finish," Josh said.
I froze at the unexpected tenderness in his words. Then I shook my head and smiled. "Neither of us ever had much to say."
At our worst, we would go an entire week without exchanging even ten sentences.
"I made things clear to Natalie. I won't see her again. I used her illness as an excuse to stay with her again and again." He sobbed and he wiped the corner of his eye. "You know it. But out of my own selfishness, I never considered your feelings."