And Vida, who has known the name since 2019.
I found that out in the April, at her kitchen table, by accident, because she said it.
She said: “He told me about Bryony that week, love.”
And she said it gently and she had assumed I knew, because why would she not.
And I sat there for a second and then I said something and we moved on, and I cried in the car.
And what took the legs out of me is not that she knew.
It is the week.
He told his mother in the week it happened. Within days. Probably on the telephone, probably in a car park, probably crying.
And then he came home and started a sentence in a kitchen and his wife said I can’t and he stopped.
So he was not a man who could not talk about it.
He was a man who could talk about it to his mother for six years and not to me, because I had closed it in six seconds and he had taken that as the arrangement.
