me he was “fixing it up to sell.”
He wasn’t fixing it to sell. He was building me a refuge, and building, at the same time, the perfect instrument to show me the truth about my own family — because Thomas knew that if he simply told me Jared and Vanessa didn’t love me, I wouldn’t believe him. So he arranged for them to show me themselves. He left Jared the flashy thing they’d covet and couldn’t sustain. He left me the solid thing they’d sneer at and I could live
