The Replacement Wife
She reaches over and puts her arms around me and I hug her back, and it's warm and a little awkward and completely genuine, and I think: this is what we could have been all along, if anyone had made space for it.
The weekend arrives with the particular relief of a week that finally ends. Felicity is moving through the house more easily, eating full meals, laughing once at something Sebastian says on a video call. Legal matters are in Rachel's hands. The tabloid story has cycled out of the news. The restraining order holds.
Dominic and I are in the hallway going over rough ideas for the vow renewal, small and real this time, just the people who matter, when the doorbell rings.
I answer it.