“It was all a bit confusing. I said and did things on instinct without thinking them through or understanding why I was doing them. It felt complete...ly out of control at the time.”“Okay,” said Benito. “I can understand that. Looking back on it now, what are your thoughts about that night?”“Ah, well. Until yesterday afternoon I would have said it was justified. Estelle had been getting more and more unreasonable and we had to do something to get through to her. And I had to protect the girls,. " The kids yelled saying we want to go with dad so it was settled. I left for our old house with the kids. I told the kids we were going to have a party and picked up some pizza and drinks on the way.When I got there Sara was dressed in her old clothes and was pretty dirty from cleaning the house that had no one in it for over nine months. When she saw me and I could see tears build up in her eyes."I figured you would need some food so I got us a pizza. Looking at you I can see you need a beer. A lot of our friends and neighbors will be stopping in to see Congresswoman Anderson, the woman that saved Vlad Novokov’s life, performed in three of the best attended concerts ever, built a hospital, broke ground for another and…’ ‘Okay! I was there. You, Jordan, Charlie, and quite a few others had a great deal to do with those accomplishments. You always try to credit all of your successes to others. I remember everything very well, especially when you saved me from that knife wielding. It made him a fierce intellectual, a gladiator in a bloodthirsty arena, and he craved doing battle with himself on the page, even though it came at a high price. But things were going to be different from now on, and he wanted the baby, really he did. He reprioritized and decided to put his poetry second and the baby first. A new and strange world had arrived, and he embraced it instead of returning to a place where he couldn’t get along with his wife. The baby would make him happier, he.