What the Bread Was For

Merrick.

You threw your pregnant wife into the cold.

You refused every visit I made.

You went four full years without checking one bank statement.

Marlowe alone decides whether she ever wants to hear your voice again — and your sudden guilt gives you no right at all to walk into her privacy.” Every word was true, and Desmond knew it, and that was what made them unbearable.

He wanted, in that moment, to argue — to say that he hadn’t known, that he’d been lied to, that he was a victim of his mother’s scheme too.