“I heard Dennis says you ruined everything,” she said.

“I heard that too.”

“Gary says he only did what Dennis told him.

I don’t know what to believe.”

I considered the woman across from me.

I could see myself in the way she twisted the napkin around her fingers, trying to make everything orderly.

“You don’t have to decide whom to trust today,” I said.

“You can get advice of your own.”