18 Nick
‘It was years ago,’ I say, closing my eyes and wishing this whole situation would go away. ‘It’s not even relevant. I was a different person back then.’
‘It’s very relevant, Nick,’ McKenna says. ‘And I want to hear it from your point of view.’
Why? I want to say. So you can tell me which aspects of that don’t match what you’ve been told by other people? I wonder whether this is a deliberate ploy from McKenna, asking me in front of Tasha, trying to find out if I’m the sort of guy who’d keep something like this from his wife. She’s just found out that I am.
I’ve never kept it from Tasha, exactly, but it’s just not something that’s ever come up in conversation. It happened in a dark period in my life, and it’s not something I’ve been keen to talk about at any point.
‘What is she
