At year’s end, my husband claimed every flight was sold out and forced us onto a fifty-hour train home.

window, Daniel slept peacefully in first class.

“Can you send the plane?”

There was a pause.

Then my father’s voice changed.

Cold. Controlled.

“Where is your husband?”

I smiled faintly.

“Still on the train.”

My father’s private jet landed in Cleveland two hours later.

By sunrise, I was home in Boston.

Daniel still had almost forty hours left on the train.

He texted when he finally woke.

WHERE ARE YOU?

Then:

THIS ISN’T FUNNY.

Then:

GET BACK ON THE TRAIN.

I replied once.

I’m home.

His call came immediately.

“You