You built a second life and you ran it out of this family’s calendar.”

And Luca said the last thing he ever said in defense of himself in front of his parents.

He said: “I was going to end it.”

Wendy looked at her son for a long moment.

“No you weren’t,” she said.

“You were going to keep it until it cost you something.

And it never did.

Not for eight months.