The Voice Beneath the Dirt: My Husband Thought No One Could Hear What He Did
And our neighbor, Diane.”
I had avoided Diane after Garrett told me she gossiped about everyone.
Looking back, I wondered whether she had been trying to talk to me, and he had been trying to prevent it.
Mercer left without making grand promises.
For the first time, that restraint reassured me.
He was not asking me to trust a comforting story.
He was showing me the beginnings of a process.
<strong>PART 7: RENATA ARRIVES</strong>