HE LIFTED THE BLANKET EXPECTING TO FIND PROOF HIS PREGNANT WIFE HAD BETRAYED HIM

fetus.

Lucas lifted his eyes.

“Obsessive attachment to her baby?”

Vivian nodded once.

“They were preparing to argue that love was illness.”

Lucas crossed to the window.

Outside, Chicago carried on beneath the daylight as though nothing had happened. Cars streamed across bridges. People hurried along sidewalks with coffee in hand. The lake shimmered silver continue reading …