Despite it all, the storm had passed over without so much as a drop of rain. Nobody knew anything, and nobody was saying anything. The only negative consequence of the whole ordeal was that Michelle acted like she despised him. Or at least, that’s how he interpreted her aggression after dinner last night. Since she was the married one in the affair, that probably meant she took on the lion’s share of the guilt and remorse. She had a family to protect after all. Brendan guessed he did, too. He didn’t agree with his parents’ views on life really, and their obsession with reputation and such, but he didn’t want to be the one dragging the Rhodes name through the muck again. It wasn’t fair to them that their kids turned out to be such screw-ups. The biggest laugh of all was that Grant now appeared to be the most stable one of the three. Who’d have guessed that ten years ago? When he was done cleaning up and dressing, he grabbed his phone. Scrolling through the phonebook for someone to talk to, he settled on one person he hadn’t upset yet. She answered on the third ring.
