Expired Hopes

Summary

My husband Harry was caught in a terrorist attack overseas. Suddenly, my phone wouldn’t stop ringing.

My mother-in-law called frantically—she and my father-in-law were at the embassy, waiting for me to negotiate. My estranged father claimed he could pull strings to get Harry home. Friends, colleagues, neighbors—all desperate for updates.

And me? I was recovering postpartum, calmly hanging up on every call.

Because the moment Harry saw the news—his ex, a war correspondent, trapped in the terror zone—he was ready to abandon his family, his newborn daughter, everything.