Cash swallowed. "It would never be your fault," Cash said. Theo had not made Cash into his father's son; the unluckiness of his birth had done that for him. When Cash felt trapped, he knew it would always have been like this. Or even worse, that he had done it to himself. He swore the vow, he married Adrienne, he hadn't left when he was a teenager and still had the chance.

"But I think I understand."

It was almost worse that Theo loved him.