“You knew?” I asked.
She nodded.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Because your father’s last words to me were about Daniel.”
I froze.
“What did he say?”
Family
My mother wiped her face.
“He said, ‘Don’t let that boy spend his life believing this was his fault.’”
I closed my eyes.
Daniel had spent almost thirty years doing exactly that.
Blaming himself.
Trying to repay a debt my father had never asked him to repay.
In the end, I didn’t keep all the money.
