Her home life once felt equally bright. Lucas, a civil-engineer-turned-app-designer, had proposed on the summit of Mount Hood two summers earlier, slipping an emerald-cut ring on her hand while sunrise painted the snow pink.
For a while they were that nauseatingly perfect couple who finished each other’s sentences and posted matching-mug photos on Instagram. Weekend hikes, collaborative Spotify playlists, and shared ambitions to buy a Craftsman fixer-upper filled their calendar.