One percent.”

“I know exactly what he told you,” I said.

“I was in the room for some of it.

And I remember, very clearly, how fast you took that one percent and used it as the permission you’d been looking for to pack your bags and go.”

Chapter 14 — I Panicked

“I was terrified, Jess.” The words came out of him in a rush now, the confession he must have been building the whole walk across the lawn.

“I was thirty years old.