Chapter 6
Robert called me the next morning.
I almost did not answer.
Nora sat across from me, arms folded.
“Speaker,” she said.
I put him on speaker.
Robert’s voice sounded twenty years older.
“Sarah.”
“Yes.”
“I am sorry.”
I closed my eyes.
“You did not slap me.”
“No. But I sat at tables where my wife shamed you and I called it family tension.”
I did not answer.
He continued.
“That was cowardice.”
Nora raised her eyebrows.
Good start, her face said.
Robert took a breath.
“I am going to request a DNA test.”
The room went still.
“For Daniel?” I asked.
“Yes.”
“Does Daniel know?”
“I told him.”
“And Evelyn?”
“She screamed for forty minutes.”
That almost made me smile.
Almost.
Robert’s voice broke.
“I loved that boy from the day he was placed in my arms. Biology will not change that. But I need to know what Evelyn did with my life.”
That sentence made me soften.
Not forgive everyone.
Just him.
“I understand.”
He was quiet.
Then said, “Daniel wants to speak to you.”
“No.”
“I understand.”
May you like
“Do you?”
“Yes,” Robert said. “More than yesterday.”
