And my husband’s family had spent six years certain that I was a woman who did nothing of consequence, while the thing I actually did was stand, night after night, exactly here, between people and the deaths that were coming for them.
Chapter 13 — Two Truths
Bronwen and Hywel sat by the bed in complete silence, undone by shame.
They had learned two brutal things in one night, and they would not soon put either down.
The daughter-in-law they had patronized and insulted for six years had just saved their son’s life with a glance at a lab panel.
And the glamorous colleague they had quietly encouraged, the one they thought was a step up, had nearly murdered him for his money.