Summary

In Chapter 18, TiPierre told Mireille about his son, who was Christophe’s age, and tried to get her to talk about Christophe, but she denied that she had a son. TiPierre threatened to choke Mireille to death when she warned him that his son was likely to turn out like TiPierre. She leaned against his hand on her throat, hoping that she would die.

Mireille remembered that when she and Michael were first married, she did not want children. Her fear of having a child deepened when she suffered a miscarriage. Mireille was running at the beach when she felt the pain and began bleeding. She had not even known she was pregnant. At home, she sat on the toilet and looked at her bloody thighs. She remembered trying to pretend that she was not grieving over her miscarriage. She never told...