did.”
“I should have stopped it.”
“Yes.”
“I know.”
My gaze dropped to Victor’s note.
Do not begin with Andrew.
Now I questioned whether it meant Victor knew Andrew would be both victim and participant.
“You helped them,” I answered.
“Yes.”
“You may have been pressured, but you helped them.”
“Yes.”
“And you let me believe I was being discarded because you no longer loved me.”
“I did love you.”
“Love without honesty becomes another form of abandonment.”
It contained every dinner at which he had avoided my questions, every
