She looked at Ben.
“Mom,” he said quietly. “Tell her.”
Diane sat down. “Ben was adopted.”
I stared at her. “What?”
I can explain.
Luke looked at Ben. “That’s what you found out last week?”
Ben nodded. “I found the papers and asked her about them.”
“And then you called me.”
“Because I didn’t know what any of it meant.”
Luke looked at me. “That’s why I moved in. I thought there had to be another explanation.”
Ben was adopted.
“And now?”
He glanced at the document. “Now I don’t know what to think.”
I turned to Diane. “Where did those papers come from?”
“After my husband died, I requested additional records.”
“When?”
I thought there had to be another explanation.
“Three years ago.”
“You’ve had them for three years?”
“Yes.”
“And Ben only found them last week?”
