"You are never going to be normal again. You stopped being normal the second you left Atkins with me."

I knew that. "It's not the fact that you're here with me, it's the fact that he didn't ask me. He never considered my feelings or how this arrangement would change my life."

Virgil shook his head, looking down at his phone. "And did you consider it from his perspective? You're the most important thing in the world to him. Do you think he'd forgive himself if he didn't protect you, knowing ...