After that, Nash tried to bury himself in work.
But before long, word went around the company that he'd been "covering for the one who did it." When his bosses caught wind, they called him in. Nash didn't know how to defend himself—just thinking about it left him so choked up he couldn't breathe. In the end he got suspended, and he took to lying at home day and night, drinking himself under.
More than once he felt like he was drinking himself to death. His body's survival instinct had him calling an ambulance in the brief windows he was clear-headed.
While he was in for severe gastroenteritis, he happened to run into the caregiver who'd looked after Freya during her stay. He paid her to look after him. She brought him soup and asked, hesitant, "How's that girlfriend of yours doing now—t
