Ezra

Silence falls.

The way she looks at me breaks something in me. I see her anger on my behalf, her understanding but at the same time…she looks at me like I’m a stranger.

“I get it.” She sniffles, wiping her tears. “He deserved it. B-but…you kept this for years, you tailed my family, you used us…”

“I had to do what I could at the time.”

“Exactly. You told me once that I don’t know you…and you’re right.” She swallows. “I-I don’t know the man I’m in ...