Chapter 7

• DAVE
• I couldn’t believe it. The truth she had told me had been there all along, but her lies had clouded everything. She had pushed me into this path, into seeing things the wrong way. If only she had trusted me, believed in me enough to be honest, she wouldn’t have had to pay the price. She’d still be safe, and I wouldn’t be sitting here, consumed by guilt and regret.
• The silence that she left behind at the dining table was deafening. Her chair next to mine, was empty, and the void in it was eating away at me. One of the rules that we had in our family was that nobody ate unless we were all together. But this morning, it felt like an intolerable burden, despite the fact that it was a cherished custom.