“I would have killed him sooner. If you’d told me, I would’ve never let you go back to that house, and I would have strangled him to death. Or kept him alive but incapacitated, so he could watch me fuck the woman he tormented, watch her marry me and give birth to my kids. I’d make him watch every fucking second that you loved me.” I have no idea why, but I smile. “I think the nails in his eyes were better. Your dad hit Barry with his foot.” He huffs out a laugh. “I knew they’d get along.” “They did. Sort of.” I lower my voice.
