“We thought you’d be better off in a care facility,” Sarah said.
I looked at her.
“Did either of you ever ask me what I wanted?”
She didn’t answer.
I turned toward the attorney sitting in my living room.
“Are you representing my children?”
He confirmed that he was.
“Then this conversation is over. I’ll be contacting my own attorney.”
That day, Sarah left without hugging me.
Jake also prepared to leave.
I stopped him.
“Tell me one more thing. Where is your mother now?”
His eyes filled with tears.
“On the other side of town. She was afraid to see you for a long time. She thought you blamed her.”
The following day, I met Linda.
We held each other and cried for a long time.
She told me Robert had never accused her of stealing. My children had simply tried to get rid of her because she had overheard too much.
