“That last one is going to be difficult for you.”
“She’s my wife.”
“She knows.”
“She just had major surgery.”
“She has help.”
“I should be helping.”
“Yes.”
The simplicity of Claire’s answer surprised him.
“Yes, Mark. You should have been.”
He looked down.
Claire slid the folder closer.
“Emily isn’t asking you to disappear. She wants the opposite. She wants you to show up.”
Mark opened the folder.
Inside was a list.
Pediatric follow-up times.
Feeding schedules.
Prescription pickups.
Insurance paperwork.
Hospital bills requiring calls.
Three pages of ordinary responsibilities.
Mark stared at them.
“This is what she wants?”
“This is where you start.”
He read the pages more carefully.
At the bottom of the final sheet, Emily had written something herself.
Please learn their routines before you ask them to fit into yours.
Mark ran his thumb across the sentence.
“When can I see them?”
