everything worse.
Daniel stared at Samuel.
“So…”
Samuel’s face was empty.
“You are not my father.”
Samuel sat opposite him.
“No.”
All those years.
All that obsession.
All that fury.
Based on a lie.
Then Daniel looked at me.
“Robert knew?”
I kept reading.
Evelyn had told Robert the truth only shortly before she d/i/e/d.
Robert promised never to reveal it unless Daniel found the letters himself.
The final paragraph made my heart jump.
Jonathan never knew you existed.
But I eventually found him.
His address is enclosed.
A second piece of paper slipped onto the table.
Daniel picked it up.
The address was in Wisconsin.
Only ninety miles from Lake Geneva.
Daniel stared at me.
“He could still be alive.”
Samuel stood abruptly.
No one stopped him.
At the doorway he turned toward Daniel.
For fifteen years they had been locked inside the identities Evelyn’s secret
