My attention snapped back.
“What?”
“He has never told you?”
“Told me what?”
William leaned back.
And in his expression I saw the first hint of a truth Adrian had apparently kept hidden for years.
“Blackwell & Reed was the firm that rejected Caroline Kane when she tried to return to work after Adrian was born.”
I stared at him.
“That can’t be right.”
“It is.”
“Then why would Adrian buy it?”
William looked through the glass doors at his son.
“That,” he said, “is something only Adrian can answer.”
PART 4 — The Life We Chose Instead of the One We Feared
I waited until we were back in Manhattan.
Not because I was angry.
Because I had finally learned the difference between having a question and demanding an immediate answer.
Mia fell asleep halfway through the drive, cheek pressed against Gerald, while Adrian sat beside me in the back seat.
