Molly Walker heedlessly dragged him forward, but Michael Gallagher pulled her back: "Molly, you..."
"Don't you take cold showers every night?" Molly teased, glancing at him, "My photo is in your bathroom, the water heater is off, yet you shower every night."
Michael Gallagher's face gradually stiffened, eventually flushing red, "You...you knew?"
"Michael Gallagher, if you want to join me then be bold about it, we're old married folk, there's no need to be shy..." Molly playfully hooked her arm around his neck, grinning.
There was a hint of jest in her words, she just couldn't stand seeing the look of loss on Michael's face.
Every time she saw him downtrodden, she found it unbearable.
Everyone said she'd had a harsh life, but the one who had suffered the most, she realized, was Michael.
It was the Jenkins family who finally broke him.
His "fake death", his "rebirth", everything he had given up, was utterly destroyed by the Jenkins family.