“She couldn’t have expected you to walk away from everything you’d earned.”

“I didn’t ask you to decide that.”

Lorraine turned to me.

“And why come now, in a helicopter?

Why make such a spectacle if this is about the children?”

Her criticism stung because there was truth in it.

I had chosen a dramatic arrival.

I had wanted Terrence to feel even a fraction of my disbelief and humiliation.