Cash kept his hands where they were on his abdomen, but ran his thumb over the edge of one of his suspenders. He’d told Angie, and he’d told Ford more explicitly — but it was something else, to tell Theo, who had been angry last time, who loved him in a way that Angie and Ford didn’t.

”Adrienne almost died, when the baby was born,” Cash said quietly, looking at Theo’s hands where he sat on the never-used guest bed. Cash almost felt like he should join him, sit next to him, but he felt pinned to the door until he’d gotten it out. ”And so I almost —” he worked it out, used the same phrase he had with Angie ”— did something drastic.”