Put It on the Master Tab
He told me I needed to get my wife under control, Derek said, rubbing his temples.
He said I needed to make you pay my brother back for the card, and that if you didn’t, we weren’t welcome at Sunday dinners anymore.
He said it flatly, reporting it, and I watched his face while he reported it, and I asked, carefully, what he had said back.
I needed to know not because I doubted him but because the words a man uses when he finally defends you are a kind of receipt, and I had earned, after two years, the right to read it.
I told him no, Derek said.
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