What Ruth didn’t understand, what she couldn’t realize for as much of a mind-reading witch as she was, was that his marriage and family and even his job represented not just his great success but his lifelong goals: children who did not resemble his own family at any angle, and a wife who served as his very own Mayflower to take him to a new world, away from his terrified, haunted family before they drowned him off the shore.
