the garden?”
“With everything.”
He looked down again.
“I’ve treated things like they don’t matter because they don’t matter to me.”
He took a breath.
“And nothing I did ever really had consequences.”
“Until now.”
“Yes.”
That was the first moment I believed he might actually have learned something.
I asked him a question.
“Why did you come here?”
“Because of what the article said.”
“About Roy?”
He nodded.
“And because of what I said afterward.”
His face tightened slightly.
“I told you the flowers would grow back.”
“Yes.”
“And
