...it was better to answer, no matter how ineptly, thank to withhold a reply. Because sometimes silence could wound someone nearly as badly as a bullet.

“Women. You'll interpret anything as love. You see a man wearing an idiotic expr…”

“The baby woke up before you did. I took him to the other room to let you get a …”

“No more Dane,” he eventually said with unnerving finality. I tried to be funny.…”

“Surely it wouldn’t harm you to try.” “Oh, yes it would!” His jaw hardened as he…”