“But that’s just worse--” Eleanor started to say.
“Eleanor,” Michael said, bringing up the tone his father would use with his mother. It was a risk, but he had to take it, or he felt he would never be able to step back through whatever threshold he had crossed to get her thinking he was helpless. “You’re not wrong, but Griffin’s not wrong either. I’m the one they did this to. If I say I’ll trust them, that’s up to me.”
Eleanor’s eyes shivered in his direction. “But Michael…”
He had ignored it, and he had forgotten about it, but now, for the very first time, Michael met the fear and anxiety that Maya embodied in his life.
Shoving it off in the name of more important things, Michael turned to Griffin. “I can’t trust them.”
Griffin’s eyes opened, surprised, and Jake snorted.
Michael ign
