Kinder Garten had clung to his belief that he’d cared for his family, that he’d done something so horrific as an act of love. Did Brian West feel the same when he’d plunged his only child into steaming hot water, when he held him under? He must have; against all common sense he must have. When Apollo had become impatient with Emma, when he’d become cruel, how had he justified it to himself? He was trying to focus on Brian, to be the kind of father he’d never had. What lengths will people stretch to believe they’re still good?
