A wave of nausea rose in me and I had to sit down on the edge of the bed.

Because the young woman — Selina, I would learn her name was — was not an ignorant party to any of this.

She knew his mother was dying.

They both knew.

And rather than come home, they had lain on a beach together, drinking champagne, and discussed how to lay hands on a dying woman’s account passwords the moment she was gone.

They were not merely betraying me.