Vows of vengeance: His contract wife
I find this detail more useful than distressing.
After the service, in the receiving line, Ashworth's father grips both my hands and tells me, with real feeling, that I've been a rock for this family through an unimaginable tragedy. I thank him. I mean it, the way I mean most things now sincerely, and entirely in service of something he'll never be permitted to understand.
Callum finds me near the flowers, his face gray in a way that has nothing to do with performance.
"The trust paperwork," he says, low. "It transfers automatically now. Since she's" He can't finish it. I don't make him.