My Son Was Told to Keep a Secret So His Father Could Betray Us — I Made Sure He Never Had to Carry It Again

That was the one rule that governed every choice I made through the entire ordeal: keep the boy out of it.

I had built my little trap carefully, and I had built it around that single principle.

Theo would never again be present for one moment of the ugliness the adults in his life had made.

That, at least, I could give him.

Chapter 10 — The Robe

At twenty minutes to ten, headlights swept the driveway, and Jennifer’s car pulled in.

She was not carrying a briefcase, or a laptop bag.