HIS SON FELL DOWN THE MARBLE STAIRS, BUT THE SECURITY CAMERA REVEALED WHY HIS DAUGHTER HAD SECRETLY BEEN WATCHING REBECCA
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Chapter 11 - Ethan Asks The Simplest Question
Ethan returned home with a bright blue cast.
Sophie covered it with tiny airplanes.
One evening he asked whether Rebecca was coming back.
“No,” Michael said.
“Because she pushed me?”
“Yes.”
“Did she mean for me to fall?”
“We don’t think she planned the fall. But she pushed you because she wanted the key. That was dangerous and wrong.”
“Why did she want it?”
“It opened a box your mom left.”
“What was inside?”
“Things adults should have told each other a long time ago.”
Ethan frowned.
“Why didn’t they?”
Michael almost smiled at the simplicity.
“Sometimes adults are scared of what happens after the truth.”
Ethan looked at his cast.
“But bad stuff happened because they didn’t tell it.”
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“Yes.”
That became the clearest explanation of the entire case.
