I GOT FIRED FOR BUYING CANDY FOR A CRYING TEENAGER – A WEEK LATER, MY COWORKERS DID SOMETHING THAT LEFT THE ENTIRE CITY STUNNED

The next night, when Mark took Sophie upstairs for her usual bath, I waited until I heard the water running.
Then I walked barefoot down the hallway, my heart pounding so hard my chest ached.
The bathroom door was ajar, just enough.

I peeked inside.
And in a second, the man I had married was gone. Mark was crouched by the bathtub with a kitchen timer in one hand and a paper cup in the other, talking to Sophie in a voice so calm it chilled me to the bone.