October Ayinde Summary

The day Ayinde's world cracks open is like any other day. She would have expected a sign, but this day starts better than most. She awakes with Julian in their vast, Richard-less bed. Clara brings her breakfast on a tray. She thinks the staff is wondering about her and is sure the other players' wives must be. At the team barbecue in July they'd all asked her if she'd found a nanny yet. They all had full time help and spent their days shopping, working out and being eternally available to their husbands. She'd kept quiet and quoted from Baby Success! to herself: All the meaning you could want is there in your arms. You have a job ... your job is Mother ... there is no job as important. The old Ayinde would have dismissed that as reactionary and antifeminist rhetoric, but...