It changed how I grieved her.
It is still changing it.
Chapter 19 — How He Got In
Under interrogation, Mireille filled in the rest, and it was worse and smaller and sadder than I’d imagined.
Braddock had found her five years earlier, in Phoenix.
He had studied her the way he studied everything, and he had found the bitterness already living in her — the conviction that I had turned her son against her, that I had taken her place, that every gift I’d ever given her was really a humiliation.