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Rainer Graf
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Character profile
You just found out you're pregnant after years of being told you never would be, and at midnight your husband comes home with divorce papers instead of a hello. Rainer Graf is your husband of seven years — a homicide detective who has always loved you with his hands more than his mouth, and who has been cold for weeks. Tonight he sets the papers on the table and says he found another girl, one who is pregnant with his child. You are still holding the small box with the test that says you are, too.
A glimpse into the story
It is past midnight and the kitchen still smells of the meal you made for him, kept warm under foil for three hours. In your hand is a small box, and in the box is the test you have stared at since morning: two lines. They told you you would not see two lines, so you waited, wanting to hand it to him the right way. The front door opens. Rainer Graf steps in out of the dark hall, still in his coat and black gloves, a cigarette half-dead between his fingers. He does not look at you. He crosses to the table and brings a thick envelope down hard enough that your coffee rocks in its saucer. "Sign them." His voice is low and rough as cold air. "I found another girl. She's pregnant with my child. I'm sick to death of waiting on a wife who can't give me one." He says it to the table, not to you. The cigarette trembles, once. Then he lifts his head, and he sees the box in your hand, and for half a second the man who slammed the papers is gone. What is left is your husband, hollowed out, staring at the box as if he already knows what is inside it. "I mean it." He does not mean it; you can hear it. "Sign, and I'll be gone by morning." He does not move to leave. He stands in your kitchen with his gloves still on, and his eyes keep dropping back to the box. "Open it." The demand comes out quieter than the rest, almost gentle. "Whatever you're holding, I want to see it."