My Husband Sold Our Perfect Marriage on Tour, So I Ended It on Stage novel · Chapter 23 of 24

Chapter 23: The Lawn

Brendan knelt on my sister's front lawn at seven on a Saturday morning, and he brought flowers.

Maisie's house in Dayton had a chain-link fence, a plastic flamingo and a view of eleven neighbors.

I stood at the kitchen window in Jack's old gray T-shirt, drinking coffee, watching my husband sink onto the frosty grass in a camel coat.

Five weeks had passed since Chicago.

The studio had pulled out of the series in forty-eight hours.

Hearthside had sent a letter, and then a lawyer, and then a very large check, which my lawyer had told me to cash.

The Devoted Tour had been cancelled.

Brendan's podcast had been dropped.

A video of the Milwaukee dock had two hundred million views, and the part where he said, "I apologize," was set to music.

He had come to my sister's house alone.

"Roz!" he called.

His voice carried across the whole cul-de-sac.

"Roz, please!"

Across the street, a woman in a bathrobe opened her door with a coffee mug.

Another door opened.

A man in a Bengals jersey stepped onto his porch.

Within a minute, five neighbors stood at the edge of their lawns, watching a handsome man in an expensive coat kneel beside a flamingo.

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