“Item two.”
“I agree that should I betray her again, in any form, at any time, while this marriage continues, the home at 214 Kittiwake Lane, Gig Harbor, Washington, shall remain solely with Shannon.”
“Item three.”
“I agree to leave that home with one suitcase and my personal belongings.”
“Item four.”
“I agree to support any child of this marriage at a rate set by the schedule attached, in addition to whatever a court may require.”
“Item five.”
“I make this agreement freely, of my own will, and with tears in my eyes.”
She looked up over her glasses.
“Those last words were your own addition, Mr. Tennant.”
“You asked me to put them in.”
The terminal was so quiet I could hear the water slapping the pilings.
He had cried.
That was the part I could not forget.
Four years ago, Dillon Tennant had sat at that kitchen table and sobbed into his hands, and I had believed every tear.
