Nobody spoke.
“You told him you had proof,” I said. “You had a photograph with him cut out of it.”
“I only wanted him to look closely,” she said. “He has a right to ask questions.”
“There’s no affair,” Daniel said, steady and plain. “I swear on my own kids. Never was.”
“I know,” I said. “Thank you, Daniel. I don’t have anything else to ask you.”
“You told him you had proof,”
Andrew faced his mother.
“You told me you caught them alone.”
“I was protecting you. After everything you went through to have children…”
Andrew faced his mother.
“You used that to make him doubt them,” I said. “And you came here to make me defend myself. Leave.”
She put a hand on the bed rail.
“Andrew, tell her. I’m your mother. I’m not being kept from my grandchildren over a photograph.”