The Singapore project relaunched in November. Reyes said on their first call in fourteen months, “I knew something was wrong. I should have pushed harder.” “So should I,” Marcus said. It was the first time in two years he had admitted a failure without constructing a justification around it.
The hardest revision for him was Catherine. Not because she had betrayed him—he could eventually hold that—but because the betrayal had been folded so completely into the ordinary fabric of their life that he could not now separate the genuine from the performed.