Selective Blindness

Gideon thought, 'She was, what—fifteen? A kid from an orphanage suddenly got into a family full of strangers. Of course her first instinct was to go home when she was abandoned.

'That isn't some kind of power play. It's just human.'

Gideon laughed bitterly. "Vance, Mom told me once—when you were little, she took you to a friend's house and forgot about the time while playing cards. She left you th