Chapter Nine
For the first time in eight months, I almost flake on Family Dinner. Aiden and Ryan are incorrigible dinner skippers, but me, I’ve always gone. Every week. Not even work has kept me away—I’ll go to dinner and then go right back to the office if I have to.
But after Zenny leaves, I’m in a strange, restless limbo. My thoughts are running in circles. My b***r is back and demanding attention. And the unfamiliar sensations of guilt and integrity chase each other in circles like dogs.
What is the decent thing to do?
Trust that Zenny knows herself and is capable of making decisions and choices? Help her on her quest for a deeper, richer relationship with her deity?
Or is the decent thing to interrupt her relationship with her deity, given that the deity is fake and also t
