Melody Marks Domestic Dynamics «Premium Quality»

Because that was the deep, unspoken dynamic of the Marks household. Not power. Not rules. But a mother who had decided, long ago, that love was not a feeling. It was a verb. And she would conjugate it every single day, in every single argument, until her family learned to speak each other’s language.

David blinked. “What?”

“He’s not the enemy, Chloe.”

“He doesn’t get it.”