She didn’t hand it to me. She didn’t hand it to Michael, who was still in the shower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She silenced it. Fast. Practiced. The kind of fast that only comes from doing something a hundred times before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Whose phone is that, Ashley?” I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She didn’t answer. She just set it face-down on the nightstand and picked the schedule back up like nothing had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michael walked out of the bathroom, towel around his waist, and saw both our faces before either of us said a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I picked the phone up myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The lock screen photo wasn’t of our kids. It wasn’t of me. It was a photo I recognized instantly \u2014 because I took it, four years ago, on our anniversary trip to Charleston, and I never gave it to anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That’s not your phone, Michael,” I said. “Whose name is on the lock screen?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I picked up his suitcase, zipped it shut, and carried it to the front door myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(dramatized fiction for entertainment)
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