I Lost Our Baby While He Comforted Her

On the night a typhoon makes landfall, a woman stands outside her office building, waiting in the rain. When she calls Samuel James, her boyfriend, to ask for a ride, he refuses, telling her that as a modern, independent woman she should solve her own problems. Minutes later, his car drives past her without slowing. Then she sees Lavinia Swanson's post: a certain someone drove halfway across the city to pick her up, and the watch on the hand resting on the steering wheel is the one she bought Samuel with three months of saved salary.

She accepts an overseas assignment and stops waiting for him. But Samuel keeps choosing Lavinia: when she has a fever, he leaves the pills on the table and goes to Lavinia because she is afraid of thunder; when Lavinia claims she is being harassed, he moves her into their home and books his girlfriend a hotel for a week. When she refuses to leave, he starts packing her clothes himself.

Because she can take care of herself, even the home they shared for five years is something she is expected to hand over first.