to ask if he would be home for dinner.”
Nobody moved.
“He told me to stop checking up on him. Then he put his phone down without ending the call.”
Elon went completely still.
“And for the next minute, I heard my husband having a conversation with another woman.”
Someone inhaled sharply.
I continued.
“I heard him complain about me.”
“Grace—”
“I heard him say he couldn’t stand being around me.”
“Stop.”
“I heard him promise her that he would divorce me.”
His mother stared at him.
“And I heard him promise he would marry her.”
Elon stood.
“This is ridiculous. She’s exhausted. She’s had the baby. She’s not thinking clearly—”
There it was.
Exactly what I had expected.
I almost smiled.
“I’m thinking more clearly than I have in years.”
Then I reached into my cardigan and took out my phone.
“I knew you might say I imagined it.”
