To learn that his father had turned out to be such a monster—not even sparing the wife of his son to satisfy his ego and lust—had to feel like the entire world around him had turned upside down.
Parents are supposed to be the people a child can blindly trust.
But Michael had broken that without giving two f***s about anyone. Noémie wondered how long he had to shut off his humanity to be able to do something so wicked.
But that wasn’t all going on in her head now, was it?
Now that she knew the truth—that Ajax had been as much a victim of his father’s viciousness as she had—guilt painted her from the inside out.
He was right.
That night, Ajax was right.
She should have trusted him more. She should have given him a chance to explain himself. Instead of running away, she should have at
