– Megan?
– No?
– Thank you for coming out that day.
I was surprised.
– Are you thanking me?
– No.
– What for?
He smiled sadly.
– Because if you had stayed back then and just apologized for something you didn’t do, we might never have discovered the truth.
I looked at Ava.
Then onto Daniel.
And I thought about the white envelope I had left on the kitchen table that night.
Sometimes a person leaves home because he feels like he has just lost everything.
And only later does he discover that for the first time in a long time he has regained his own voice.
And that’s why that day when Daniel said:
“Apologize to her or leave”
– I left.
And it was the best decision I could have made.
