Chapter 16 — I Wanted You Alive

“You’re leaving me,” Jessica said to Adam, her voice climbing toward panic, “because of her?”

“No,” Adam said, and he said it wearily, sadly, like a man who had just watched a beautiful thing turn out to be hollow.

“I’m leaving because every single time you’re afraid of consequences, you find someone else to destroy instead of facing them.

Your sister.

Your parents.