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“Kieran.”
“Why are you angry at me right now?”
“I wanted to tell him when—”
“When what? You were sure? We both know it’s far-fetched.”
“That doesn’t mean it’s not true.”
I want to preserve something from my mom. Is that so wrong, holding on to hope? I wish he’d understand.
I get out of the pool and put my bathrobe on.
In the shower, his words hit me. There is absolutely no reason to believe my uncle is lying. I will solve the mystery regarding him.
In bed, I am half asleep when I feel him climbing into bed next to me and it’s only then that I give in to sleep completely.
“I don’t like when we go to bed mad,” he says in the morning, kissing my neck.
“That wasn’t a fight. It was a disagreement.”
“So if you go to sleep without talking to me, that’s a disagreement? What would you do after we fight?”
“Don’t try to find out,” I say, tilting my head for a good morning kiss.
After we change, we find Cameron at the breakfast table. We hug and his eyes take me in. He nods as if agreeing to something going on in his head.
I set down my empty cup of tea and say, “Okay, what do you want to know? Because I told Kieran everything I know already.”
“Sis, we don’t have a damn uncle. I would have known.” He eyes me with a look full of compassion.
“Or maybe we have, and he was kept away for a reason.”
“You said Mom entrusted him with you?”
“Yes.”
Cameron leans back in the chair, crossing his arms over his chest. “Then why wouldn’t he contact me as well?”
“Maybe he thought . . .”
“That I am my father’s son?”
“Cam, I will know more when I talk to him. Maybe we have some other relatives. I’d like to visit them.”
“No,” both he and Kieran shout at the same time.
“I wasn’t asking.”
Kieran curses under his breath and my brother stares at me. “I haven’t risked everything to keep you from danger only for you to go into it headfirst.”
“I’ll ask him to visit the first few times until you trust him.”
They exchange a glance as if saying, “We don’t trust anyone.”
Kieran’s phone rings and he answers.
“How was the honeymoon?” Cameron asks.
