I had means, yes.

I had a quiet house and a full bank account and absolutely no one in the world who needed me for anything.

I had told myself for years that this was freedom.

And a man had just described to me, over bad coffee, a child who had been told no nineteen times, and something in me had gone very still and very certain in a way it had not been in a decade.

I did not say any of that to Greg.