The reason.
His sister Row.
In 2021, before the girls, Corey did something much smaller than this with somebody at Kettleby and it got out, and there was about a fortnight of it, and I was told a version in which it was not what it looked like.
And Dinah said something to me at that kitchen table that I have carried for four years.
She said: “He’s a good lad, Pia. Don’t let people fill your head.”
***Don’t let people fill your head.***
And in the April of 2025, when Shauna rang me, the first thing I thought — and I know this because I remember thinking it, and it frightens me now — was not about my marriage.
It was: this time she’s going to see it.
That came before anything else. Before the girls. Before Corey.
Before any of it.
And the eleven weeks, which I have described as being perfectly normal with a man on a ship.
