I work with people who carry severe trauma from their jobs.

Your wife is having a dissociative panic attack right now.” The floor seemed to dissolve under me. Niamh. N was not a man.

N was her doctor. We go deeper tomorrow was not an innuendo.

It was the language of therapy.

“Bethany?” I whispered, and my knees finally went; I sank down onto the carpet a few feet from them.

Chapter 16 — Shame