And fuck, he was furious. If he’d ever seen Lyford—Nicolau—cry like this because of anyone else, Tam would have destroyed that person’s life. He would have been the nastiest, pettiest, most awful villain. He would have spread insidious gossip about them like poison on a bed of weeds. He would have torn them down. He would have uprooted them and cut them apart and salted the fields behind him.
