I wanted the company. We made an arrangement.”
Daniel shook his head.
“Then why did Robert help my mother?”
“Because Evelyn discovered it.”
Silence.
Samuel continued.
“She agreed not to expose Robert if he helped her disappear.”
My entire marriage rearranged itself in seconds.
Every business trip.
Every unexplained absence.
Every nervous phone call.
Every time Robert had told me, Don’t worry, Maggie. I’ve handled it.
Maybe he had.
Just not the way I imagined.
I looked at Claire.
“The page.”
She was crying harder now.
“Mom, I don’t know where it is.”
Samuel scoffed.
But Claire suddenly frowned.
“Wait.”
She looked toward the living room.
“What?”
“Dad gave me something that summer.”
She rushed inside.
We followed.
Claire stopped beneath the old family portrait above the fireplace.
Robert had insisted on framing it himself.
A picture of the four of us at Navy Pier.
Claire lifted it from the
