The Collapse of a Friendship and Two Marriages

By Monday, both Tom and Elizabeth had filed for divorce. Elizabeth gave birth to her second daughter, Katie, in Yusuuf's presence while the babysitter Faith watched the children.

Julia and Douglas were staying in a ritzy hotel downtown while they both figured out what to do. They didn't love each other. They were barely friends. But they were both alone now, so they stayed together, an empty wine bottle on Julia's nightstand each night as they both came to grips with what was destroyed.