Where did you get that ring

anyone else.

I laughed then.

It came out broken and strange, half sob and half disbelief.

My children had left me at a bus stop with my clothes in an old suitcase.

They had no idea they had handed me their father’s final warning.

I found an old rotary phone in the office, but of course the line was dead. My own cellphone was in my purse, but Diane had taken continue reading …