Chapter 9

• Ben bit his lip and turned to the side. He was still mostly facing Jess, but he was staring miles away. “I don’t know. It was political. Our marriage wasn’t exactly arranged, but it was the product of forces bigger than ourselves. That’s not enough to build love off of and we tell ourselves that is just a construct, but it turns out that it does matter. We had very little of it when we started and we used up what we had in reserve. Now we are here.”
• “You don’t love her?” Jess asked.
• “I don’t … I don’t know. I know there is not much to build a future off of if something doesn’t change soon,” Ben said.