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The twins shifted again. I put both hands over them. “I am his wife,” I said. Monica laughed. “Barely. A courthouse wedding before deployment? That’s not romance. That’s strategy.” Brett folded the bills and tucked them into his jacket pocket. “Marcus would want his real family taken care of.” There it was again. Real family. They had been saying it for eight months. Sometimes to my face, sometimes just loud enough at family gatherings before Marcus deployed. His real family needed him. His real family knew him. His real family didn’t need paperwork or a positive pregnancy test to matter. I looked at Sandra and tried one last time. “Marcus knows about every dollar in this apartment,” I said. “He knows what I spend. He knows what the doctors cost. He knows—” “He knows what you tell him,” Sandra snapped.

A dull ache pulsed behind my eyes. I had not told Marcus everything. I had told him about the babies kicking. I had told him Mrs. Chun next door made dumplings too spicy for me but I ate them anyway. I had told him I slept with his T-shirt under my pillow and that the jasmine candle he hated had finally burned down.