“I’ll swear that on my own children.

There never has been.”

Part Fifty-Five: I Swear on My Own Kids

“I know,” I said.

“Thank you, Brian.

I haven’t got anything I need to ask you.”

He gave Kevin one long look and went out quietly.

I have had eleven months to think about what I said to Brian in that room and I am still not certain I got it right, and it is one of the two things in that whole day that I would change.