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Chapter 58

So now he felt ready to talk to her about what she’d brought up the night before. Or at least as ready as he’d ever be…

“You mean with what we talked about last night?” His mother leaned forward in her chair, and her eyes searched his face. She was probably looking for pain, probably trying to assess if he was truly ready to talk more.

“Yes, Mom. What are you going to do? Are you gonna tell Dad?”

She looked away from him at the question, her bright blue eyes scanning the horizon. Henry questioned his motivation for bringing things up again, questioned if he was really ready to hear whatever his mother had to say.

She turned back to him. “Now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, I think I have to. I mean, this secrecy has gone on for a lot longer than it should have. And seeing you seeing me was, in a weird way, liberating. You kind of forced my hand, Henry. And I’m grateful.” She nodded and slapped a hand on her thigh. “I’ll talk to him when he gets home from work.”