When I Returned from the Hospital with Our Newborn, My Husband Had Changed the Locks – Twenty Hours Later, He Showed Up, Pounding and Screaming

panicking. I agreed to take you in, just for the night.”

“And the yelling this morning?”

“Had to sell it,” she said with a small smile. “Couldn’t let you figure it out before you saw the house.”

I turned back to Ray, who was holding our daughter now, swaying gently.

“Wait, this morning, you said it was ‘life or death.’ What did you mean?”

Ray’s eyes met mine, and they were wet.

“Because it was,” he said softly.

“I didn’t know how to be the husband and father you both deserve. So yeah, it felt like life or death. Without this, I didn’t know who I was supposed to be.”

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