That landed harder than I expected.
All month, Eric had called our closeness dependence; sitting there, I understood why that story had been useful to him.
I moved around the table and sat beside her.
She leaned into me.
“I defended him,” she whispered.
“How did I go from telling everyone he was wonderful to being scared of him in one day?”
I said nothing.
“I defended him to you. To Mom. I stopped calling because he said you were trying to control me.”
“Tina.”
“I married him.”
“I know.”
“How did I go from telling everyone he was wonderful to being scared of him in one day?”
She cried into my shoulder.
“You didn’t.”
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She looked at me.
