This got out of control.
Please think about what’s best for Maxine.
She read the last one twice.
For months he’d used their daughter’s name as a shield — demanding respect for Maxine while emptying her college fund, demanding calm while planning a different life.
Gretchen turned off her phone without answering.
For the first time in fourteen years, she felt no obligation to understand him.
Chapter 15 — Telling Maxine
Three days later Joshua moved his things out and rented a small apartment across the river in St.
Paul.
Maxine knew at once that something was badly wrong.