Chapter 13 - Noah Asks About His Mother
Noah began asking questions about Rachel.
Not the saintly version adults gave children after someone died.
The real person.
Was she funny?
Did she get angry?
Did she ever burn dinner?
Daniel answered everything.
Rachel hated folding laundry.
She sang badly in the car.
She once backed into their own mailbox and blamed the mailbox.
Noah laughed harder than Daniel had heard him laugh in months.
Then Noah asked:
“Was Mom scared of Claire?”
Daniel thought carefully.
“I think she became worried about what Claire and Marcus were doing.”
“Did they make her crash?”
Daniel refused the easy answer.
“We don’t have evidence of that.”
Noah looked disappointed.
Daniel continued:
“The truth matters even when it isn’t as dramatic as the story people
imagine.”
Noah nodded slowly.
Daniel wanted his son to learn something the adults around him had
forgotten.
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Suspicion was not proof.
But proven betrayal did not need exaggeration to be serious.
