Chapter 29 — Pain, Guilt, And Jealousy.

I exhaled. “You know that's not true.”

“Oh it is!” He leaned into the table, finger pointing at me in accusation. “Twenty years and you walked away just like that. All of our dreams, all of our visions, you threw them all away. You disappeared without looking back even once. What would you call that? Thinking of others?”

I pulled at my collar, the room suddenly hot. “It was too much for me, Desmond. I returned, didn't I? I came to you ...