“You haven’t told him,” he said in a low voice, “about what I did.” “What we did,” I corrected, “and I’m not going to.” Why did he look upset? Wasn’t he supposed to be relieved? “Why?” “Because it won’t change what happened. All it’s going to do is hurt him, and the way things are between you two . . .” I didn’t want or need to say that Preston’s relationship with his father was fragile. “I don’t want to jeopardize what you have.”
