At NovaCore, Julian arrived to find Evan already drunk.
Julian walked in and took the glass straight from his hand.
"Stop drinking."
The Lancaster family's situation was a mess. Julian didn't know how to comfort him.
"Stop? Why should I stop? Do you know Vivian let me raise another man's child for years, and everyone closest to me knew? I was the only one kept in the dark."
As he spoke, Evan picked up the glass again and took another hard drink.
"You weren't good to Vivian either. What are you acting wronged for now?"
"I wasn't good to her? Tell me, exactly how was I not good to her?" Evan hiccupped. "For five years, I never touched her. She slept in the child's room the whole time. Wasn't that enough?"
Julian froze.
"If you were good to her, would you have talked about her like t
