“Is this what I think it is?”
He smiled the way he does when he’s proud of himself.
No return address. Just Evan on the front.
“Something Mom won’t be able to resist.”
Diane showed up that afternoon.
No call. No knock. She let herself in with the key she wasn’t supposed to need.
Evan and I waited in the next room, listening.
First, her purse hitting the counter.Then the unmistakable rrrrip of paper.
With that one slip, my mother-in-law risked losing her son forever.
Diane showed up that afternoon.
“Oh God…”
We strolled in like we’d just heard the news.
She stood by the table, pale, holding the pages.
“I knew something was going on,” she whispered. “But I never imagined this.”
“What’s wrong, Mom?”
PETITION FOR DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
“I knew something was going on.”
In re: The Marriage of Evan and Sarah
“Divorce papers?”
“What about them?”
