CHAPTER 27: Harker
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Harker had been sure Alison and Irene would be gone when he got home. When he’d seen her, he’d wanted to charge across the living room and scoop her into his arms, but just because she was still there, it didn’t mean they were together.
He'd expected her to say something about him signing the divorce papers—tell him she’d talked to her lawyer, that she was filing them or had filed them, thanked him or something. It was strange that she hadn’t said anything. There was no way she could've missed them or his letter. She was probably waiting to bring it up after Irene was asleep. If nothing else, fear of waking the baby would keep them from shouting at each other.
She walked into the kitchen.
“I would’ve ordered extra pitas, but I thought we still had some. Yo
