“No. You were trying to control what happened next.”
“Rachel-”
“You had permission to decide what you could handle. You didn’t have permission to decide what I could know.”
His face strained.
“No. You were trying to control what happened next.”
“I lost Maggie, too. Do you think seeing Lily didn’t hurt me?”
“I know it hurt.”
“Then why do you act like I did this to punish you?”
“I am not.”
I pointed to Lily.
“I’m acting like you’ve forced a scared sixteen-year-old girl to keep a secret because you were too afraid to talk to your wife.”
“I know it hurt.”
Paul looked at her.
Lily's eyes were red.
He whispered, “I never asked him to do that.”
She answered before I could.
“You didn’t have to.”
Paul stood still.
“I never asked him to do that.”
Lily covered her hands with her sleeves.
