Diane lowered her eyes. “Yes.”
I requested additional records.
“And you never told him?”
“I was scared.”
“Of what?”
Her eyes filled. “What would happen if I started asking questions I couldn’t take back.”
Ben shook his head. “So you hid everything?”
Ben only found them last week?
“I thought I was protecting you.”
“From what?”
Diane looked at me but didn’t answer.
I pulled the document closer.
There were details I hadn’t noticed in my kitchen.
I was scared.
A date I knew too well.
The maternity ward where Luke had been born.
And one line I couldn’t make sense of.
I recognized enough. “Where did this come from?”
“The original adoption file.”
There were details I hadn’t noticed in my kitchen.
“Is there more?”
Diane opened a folder. “Yes.”
I reached for it.
