Choose Me

by Tess Gerritsen

“Right now he needs his dignity. Let’s allow him that much.”

But that is the nature of tragedy. You go through life never appreciating the joy of a normal day until the instant it’s gone. All it takes is a knock on the door. A police officer standing outside to inform you that your husband is dead, found collapsed in a stranger’s stairwell. You think you’ll never know a normal day again.