the truth: I should have found you.”
“My mother told you not to.”
“Your mother asked me to wait. She did not ask me to stop caring.”
I looked at Daniel.
He was watching me, but not listening to the phone.
“Why didn’t you tell me about Claire?”
“I didn’t know what she had arranged. After Margaret died, Claire contacted me. She said she had a plan, but she wouldn’t explain it. She only asked me to trust her.”
“Did you?”
“I trusted her because Margaret had.”
That answer made
