“You are destroying your own family, Christopher!”

“No, Mother,” I said, and I looked her dead in the eye, and I discovered that my voice was perfectly steady.

“I am finally uncovering who destroyed it six years ago.”

Chapter 13 — Oliver Breaks

It was Oliver who broke first, and I think it saved him, in the end, what little of him there was left to save.

He set his briefcase down on a row of terminal chairs, carefully, like a man setting down something he had been carrying too long, and every last drop of color went out of his face.