Where did you get that ring

left my daughter.”

A chair scraped.

“Our marriage is complicated.”

“No,” my father said. “Your character is.”

There was a silence.

Then Adrian laughed.

“You think she’ll cut me off? She won’t. She loves me. And legally, I’m still her husband.”

My father’s voice went quiet. “Is that why you have not filed for divorce?”

Adrian replied, “Divorce is timing.”

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