“The one I met, the one who made the choice to keep me there? She did. A lot. She cared most of all for her nephew. The way he cut her off when he learned what she did to me…”

Yeah, he was closer to Adam than she was at this point. The kid was someone he had been texting with regularly since he left town. It really was interesting. And sad at the same time. But Mark supposed family was a weirder thing for him than it was for a lot of people back home.