Chapter 12 — What He Tried to Bury

I am going to tell the next part plainly, and only once, because it is the most monstrous thing I have ever had to understand, and it does not deserve to be dwelt on.

Luke had not simply tried to cover up a terrible accident.

What he had tried to do was worse than that by an order of magnitude I did not know existed until I stood in that room.

A child had died — Camellia’s little boy, Bruno, left too long in a hot car through a catastrophe of adult negligence.

And rather than let that death be what it was, rather than let it be investigated and answered for, my husband had tried to make the dead child into a different child.