Chapter 5

For our seventh wedding anniversary, I made one last attempt.

I booked the restaurant where Grant had proposed to me. It required reservations a month in advance.

I added the dinner to his calendar two weeks early. Three days before, I reminded him not to schedule a client meeting.

"I remember," he said each time.

That afternoon, I put on a dark green dress he once said made my eyes look brighter. I placed a new tie clip in my purse, engraved on the back with our wedding date.

Before leaving home, I stood in the bathroom with both hands…