Lily was his cousin because you wanted me to stop asking questions.”
“I didn’t know what else to say.”
There it was.
An admission.
She had been keeping it from me for a reason.
“Why?”
“I have to go.”
“Who was Michael?”
She hung up.
I stared at the phone.
An admission.
Daniel’s mother and I had never been close, but this was different.
Why protect Daniel’s affair?
And what did Michael have to do with it?
Was he Rebecca’s brother? Had he helped Daniel hide it?
I opened my laptop again.
This was different.
***
Nearly an hour later, an old article gave me Michael’s last name.
Michael H. Daniel C.
Business partners.
Another article said the company had closed after a “financial dispute between its founders.”
“What did you do, Daniel?”
An old article gave me Michael’s last name.
I searched for Michael H.
His obituary appeared.
Then I
