The Wife Isn't Me novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Summer
"He's honoring himself," Trish said in the car. "He's throwing himself a party."
"He's throwing himself a party in front of everyone who matters to him," I said.
I didn't know yet why that sounded like good news.
July came in hot and sticky.
For the first time since March, nobody was following me.
On Sundays we went to Patterson Park with a blanket and too much food.
Trish brought her son and a cooler.
Philippa came the second Sunday, with both boys, in a sun hat the size of a satellite dish.
She'd moved back into her own house in Roland Park after the hearing.
Oscar was living in a hotel downtown. She had a lawyer from Washington who'd never met her father.
"He moved my son's trust to his foundation the morning after the hearing," she said, spreading out a linen tablecloth on the grass. "I don't care. I thought I'd care."
"How does it feel?" I asked.
"Like taking off a very tight shoe." She looked at Trish's plastic plates. "Is that potato salad from a tub?"
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