one week away.
“Di, I don’t even know who I am without him.”
“Then go find out.”
I wanted to argue. To tell her that a cruise wouldn’t fix more than two decades of a life dismantled overnight. But when I opened my mouth, nothing came out.
Because she was right.
I’d built everything around my husband.
Somewhere along the way, I’d stopped being Eleanor and started being Marcus’s wife.
And now that title had no job description.
***
Chloe called that night. Her voice was steadier than mine.
“Mom, Aunty
