Chapter 22

I stared at the timestamp on Tessa's screenshot. 7:26 p.m. At that exact minute, I had been giving birth while Graham stood at the awards ceremony. The message from him to Tessa read: You deserve tonight. I'll take care of the rest. Smile for the cameras. I had no way to know what “the rest” meant. I knew only that he'd found time to reassure her while I'd been begging him to come to the hospital. Graham stood in my doorway, holding his phone as if he'd never seen the message before. “I...