Then a short video.
I watched four seconds of it.
I knew immediately whose door it was.
I sent the images to my phone. I placed the device exactly where I had found it. I closed the drawer. I walked to the bathroom door and listened to the water still running.
Then I went downstairs and sat at the kitchen table with my hands flat on the wood and made myself breathe.
How I Told Thomas, and What He Said When He Turned to Look at His Wife
I waited until the following afternoon when Steven was running errands.
Thomas was upstairs in the guest room fixing a ceiling fan that had been wobbling for a week. I asked Lucy to come with me. The three of us sat together at the kitchen table.I put my phone in front of Thomas without explanation.
He looked at the screen with the expression of a man who doesn’t yet understand what he’s looking at.
