By the time Lily was seven months old, we had gotten a routine down. Work was going well, I had accepted a promotion and was working under someone other than Sam. I'd been offered a few positions, but had ended up working until Jason, our largest lawyer in the firm and helping manage other paralegals. I was the lead of three other paralegals and helped oversee their day to day operations while maintaining a small caseload of my own. I had my same office, across from Sam, so I still saw a lot of him. A new paralegal had began to inhabit the previously empty office next to mine, and he was having an easy time working alongside Sam as his new paralegal. Sam and I didn't speak. In Lily's seven months of life, Sam had only seen her at the hospital. His ex-wife Shannon brought Ellie by the

