You Deserve to Know

by Aggie Blum Thompson

if you wanted me to write warmly about you, you should have behaved better.

If you recognize yourself in one of these characters, that’s between you and your therapist.

Lisa and Marcus. Gwen and Anton. And Aimee and Scott. The three families live on the same cul-de-sac, Nassau Court, in East Bethesda, just outside Washington, D.C. The five younger kids are all close in age and attend the same school—both sets of twins in first grade and Noa in fourth grade, while Lisa and Marcus’s son, Kai, has just started middle school.

She misses the mudroom in their old house, outside Boston. She never wanted to leave, but after what Anton did, she had no choice.

They were standing a foot apart, beaming at each other and going on about their twins. Twins, twins, twins. As if giving birth to twins gave them some magical connection.

Loling it does

No, killing Gwen was out of the question. There had to be another way to destroy her.

Of course Anton hadn’t been able to finish a second book in the past eight years, Gwen thinks with bitterness. He had nothing original to say. He never did.

Here’s something she could take from Gwen, something she would relish taking. Anton.