Every Unanswered Text Broke My Love Little by Little

My husband was the communications officer on an ocean research vessel.

And somehow, I could never reach him.

Every time he went to sea, he told me the signal was unstable out there. Getting one reply every three to five days was normal.

I believed him for two whole years.

Until his ex-girlfriend, Isla Brooks, posted screenshot after screenshot of their video calls.

In one month, she and Grant Mercer had called thirty-one times.

The shortest call was forty minutes.

The image was so clear I could see the deck behind him, and the stars hanging over the ocean.

I opened our chat history.