their shrieks fading down the long driveway, Ethan tu

u tell her?" he yelled. "Mom alway

Ethan," I said, my v

id-rant. "Wha

lier. I opened it and took out a document. "This is a copy of your original birth certificate. Your mother was Richard' s first wife. V

I held out. He didn't ta

He looked at Richard, who was slumped in a chair, loo

s I thought she favored you... it was because you were her real da

fied understanding. His entire sense of self, his entit

ty, but perhaps a grim understanding.

my attention back to the more pressing m

air with Brenda Evans. About the rather significant sums of Sterling Innovations money you' ve been siphoning into o

ooked up, his eye

said. "This is about fraud. Embezzlement. Things that

ely gone from him now

y mother' s cleanup