Inside the private bridal suite, Preston locks the door and raises the metal golf club toward Giulietta.
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Chapter 22 - PRESTON’S MOTHER VISITS HIM
Margaret eventually rebuilt a relationship with Preston.
Slowly.
Structured.
She visited after his release.
The first conversation reportedly lasted fifteen minutes.
She asked:
“When you said your father taught me to obey, what did you think you remembered?”
Preston said:
“Fear.”
Then:
“I thought fear meant the argument ended.”
There.
Children confuse silence with resolution.
He had watched Margaret stop talking after Warren became threatening and learned the wrong lesson:
Dad wins.
Not:
Mom is calculating safety.
Then Margaret said:
May you like
“I was never obeying. I was surviving the room.”
That became Preston’s sentence to carry.
