“What’s unbelievable?”
“That Claire’s trying to embarrass us.”
He rubbed his eyes.
“Vanessa, you told me you were meeting a divorce attorney tonight.”
Ethan turned sharply.
“What?”
David continued.
“You told me we needed to keep working on our marriage, and you agreed to our next counseling appointment. Then you told me you were seeing a lawyer Saturday evening.”
Vanessa stared at the floor.
Ethan looked confused.
“Wait. You’re still going to marriage counseling?”
David turned toward him.
“Yes.”
Ethan’s face changed.
“Vanessa told me you were separated.”
David looked at his wife.
“Did she?”
Vanessa reached for the back of a chair.
“Our marriage has been difficult.”
“That isn’t the question,” David said.
She swallowed.
“We’ve been emotionally separated for a long time.”
He shook his head.
“We share a bedroom. We had dinner together last Sunday. We were discussing a vacation next month.”
Ethan stared at her.
“You said he’d moved out.”
Vanessa’s eyes filled.
“I said things were complicated.”
“No,” Ethan answered. “You told me he’d moved out and that the marriage was ending.”
I looked toward my husband.
