It ends today, one way or the other.

You just get to choose whether you end it, or I do.”

Chapter 14 — The Confession

So we went to their house.

I carried little Grace up the front walkway, and my brother walked beside me, and he looked, with every step, as though he might be sick before we reached the door.

He opened it with his own key.

Lauren was sitting on the couch in the living room, and the moment she saw us, her eyes went first, instantly, to the baby in my arms — the daughter she had been separated from, in the wreckage of everything, and had barely been allowed to hold.