“Yeah,” Mike says, because there’s no point lying. “I knew. And what would you have done if I told you? What were you going to do, hang around on a dead end team trying to play fucking nurse with a dead end player? You didn’t need to know.” “It was my choice to make,” Liam says, and Mike hears the waver now, almost soft enough to miss. “And you would have made a shitty choice,” Mike says.
