Emily had barely survived becoming a widow while pregnant. But when someone vandalized her home and left a threat addressed to her newborn daughter, grief gave way to a fear rooted in a past she thought she had escaped.
I was seven months pregnant when my husband died.
One evening, David and I were arguing over baby names in our kitchen.
He liked Doris.
I liked Hannah.
“You only like Doris because it starts with the letter D, like your name,” I told him.
David pressed a hand to his chest. “That is a serious accusation.”
“You named your first dog Danilo.”
“It was a perfectly good name.”
“Again, you just wanted his name to start with D, like yours.”
David laughed, pulled me against him, and kissed my forehead.
“We still have time,” he said. “She’ll tell us her name when we meet her.”
The next morning, he left for work before sunrise.
That afternoon, a state trooper stood on my front porch.
There had been a single-car accident.
David seemed to have been speeding, lost control on a curve, and struck a concrete barrier.
He died before the ambulance arrived.
I remember staring at the trooper’s mouth while he spoke.
The words reached me, but they did not feel real.
“Emily?”
I looked down at my stomach.
My daughter kicked.
That was the moment I understood that David was gone.
I barely remember the funeral.
I remember people touching my shoulder. I remember them bringing over food and filling my refrigerator.
I remember David’s business partner telling me how talented he had been.
I remember standing beside his coffin and thinking he was supposed to be beside me when our daughter was born.
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