“No, baby.”
“Daddy was.”
“He didn’t say that.”
“He doesn’t have to.”
She studied the hallway.
Then suddenly reached out and grabbed my wrist with both hands.
“Are you mad at me?”
“Are you going to leave us too?”
My heart raced.
“Of course not.”
She leaned so close I could barely hear her.
“Daddy made us promise never to tell what he did to our first mommy.”
For a moment, I forgot how to breathe.
I swallowed.
“What did he do?”