“She didn’t yell at me.

She just asked whether I’d been eating.

She called me honey.”

“She’s known you since the day you were born,” I said.

“She was every bit as worried about you as I was.”

“Look, I owe her an apology too,” Ethan said.

“I was rude to her when she showed up at my office.

I let Vanessa turn me against the people who really care about me.”