This is Why We Lied (Will Trent, #12)

by Karin Slaughter

It was the look on his face that struck me most, cause there was no expression. Just a few minutes before, he was sobbing and all emotional threatening to kill himself, and then he went to nothing. Absolutely nothing. And it come to me that this was maybe the first time I’ve really seen him for who he is. That the crying Dave or the laughing Dave or the high Dave or the angry Dave or even the Dave who pretends he loves me ain’t the Dave that he is at all. The real Dave is empty inside.

But I’m not gonna be the kind of ex-wife who turns her child against his father, neither. If you end up thinking he’s a bad man, it’s gonna be because you saw it for yourself with your own two eyes.

“Abusers don’t just groom their victims. They gaslight everybody around the victim so that if you say anything, you’re the one who’s sick.”