Investors were threatening to replace you. Your father had just been hospitalized.”
“All true.”
“And then Cassandra began calling.”
“She was pregnant.”
“I didn’t know that at first.”
“But eventually you did.”
– Sí.
– ¿Cuándo?
“When I opened one of the letters.”
My grip tightened around the phone.
“You opened her letter?”
“You had authorized me to review personal correspondence.”
That was true.
Painfully true.
“What did it say?”
“That she was pregnant.”
“And you didn’t tell me.”
– No.
– ¿Por qué?
Evelyn began crying softly.
I had never heard her cry.
