Lena's POV
I found out about Ruth Daniel approaching Damien the way I found out about most things that happened in this house when I wasn't directly involved, from Henry, eventually, after the fact, with the particular editing of a man who had thought carefully about which parts of the story were his to tell and which parts belonged to someone else.
He told me on a Tuesday morning.
We were in the kitchen, the default location for Morrison family revelations, something about the plainness of it, the fact that it was just a room where food happened and nobody was performing anything, made honesty easier regardless of the hour.
Henry came in at seven-fifteen while I was feeding Ethan and he made tea with the focused efficiency of someone who needed something to do with his hands while he
