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‘Why?’
‘Because of how your mother treated you boys.’
The world had still ceased spinning.
‘She left you on the sofa once—face-down. She left Abe alone in the bath... Meghan simply couldn’t do it any more.’
He stared at his father and remembered being hauled out of the car and into the shower, and he knew then that he had almost died.
‘So why did you let the world think there was an affair?’
‘That was your mother’s doing at first. But then came the accident, and it was easier to let you think she was perfect.’
‘She wasn’t, though.’
‘No.’
To Elizabeth Devereux her babies had been mere toys. Decoys. Dragged out to smile for the cameras and then ignored the moment they weren’t around.
But, like all true narcissists, she had loved her place in the sun and any threat to it had been quickly eliminated.
Like Meghan.
She had let the world think the nanny a cheat. And when Jobe had wanted a divorce, and threatened to expose the truth about they way she treated his children, she had simply run towards the sun with no thought of the chaos she’d left behind her.
Ethan had lost two mothers in one month—the mother who’d given birth to him but also, worse, the woman who had truly cared for him.
‘I said to Merida that I would go to my grave not telling you...’
‘Merida already knows?’
‘Of course she does.’
‘So why hasn’t she said anything?’
‘The same reason as me,’ Jobe said. ‘You don’t want to hurt those you love. And Idolove you, son.’
‘I love you too.’
‘Now, go and be with your wife.’
He wanted to be with Merida, but he wanted to be here too, and Jobe must have seen indecision dart in his eyes.
‘I’m not going anywhere yet,’ he said.
‘Are you sure?’
‘I want to know what you have.’
‘A grandchild,’ Ethan said. ‘And you’ll be a grandfather. Doyouknow what we’re having?’
‘No.’ Jobe shook his head.
‘Liar.’
‘I don’t.’ He nodded, as if gesturing to something. ‘Open that.’
‘What?’
