Synopsis

He arrived home from the trip to find a silence in the house that felt heavier than absence. The woman he’d brought with him from Ohio, along with her son, was gone. Replaced by a note, terse and final, confessing to an affair. A bitter wave of disbelief washed over him, followed by a cold anger. He accused her of removing his belongings, a list of items forming in his mind like a litany of betrayal. The most egregious offense, she’d mentioned, was a designer handbag – a $2,200 purchase made wit