HE GAVE MY PLACE TO HIS MISTRESS. OUR SON GAVE ME THE COMPANY

second glass.

I did not take it.

“You coached him,” he said.

“No.”

“You told him to say that.”

“Owen does not require coaching to recognize his mother.”

Graham drank.

For years, I had mistaken his self-control for strength. Now I understood it as vanity. He never shouted when a quieter cruelty would preserve his image.

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