None of it made sense. He grew up believing she left them for another man—a rich man—but that wasn’t the case at all. She left because she wasn’t given a choice. In his father’s mind, her wanting a career meant that neither he nor Jonathon were enough. And in a sense he had been right, but it needn’t have been one or the other. Loretta wanted to augment her life, not replace it. Instead, his father had taken it as a rejection and poisoned Jonathon against not only his mother but ...