Love doesn’t run out because we give someone else a name.”

PART 21

Gregory’s mother had met Paige many times but had never known the whole story of Rose and Violet.

When Gregory finally told her, she listened with a severity I had rarely seen.

“You made a promise to a woman who helped you survive,” she said.

“That was honorable.

You turned the promise into a lie to your wife and child.

That was not.”