Chapter 113

“More like some two.” I shut the door.

Jack gave me a look, and then turned back to Wills. “You’re all right now?”

But his son didn’t answer. “What are you doing here, Dad? Not that I have any objection to you coming to visit, but it’s a long way, and it’s Mother’s Day.”

“Jill has most of her children with her—”

And I’d learned that even though she wasn’t Wills’s biological mother, she’d always treated him as if she were.

He looked like something was bothering him, maybe even more than his grandparents’ repudiation of him.

“How are they?”

“They’re fine.”

“Is Alice back in New York?”

“Where else? Ginny insisted Alice needed to be there to have her grandchildren celebrate the day with her. And never mind about that! I’m going to kill your uncle.”

“Which one?”

“Pete, to begin with. When were you going to tell me?”

“Uh…tell you what, Dad?”

“That you were capable of taking on a pair of undercover cops and beating the shit out of them.”