“Ivy?”
“Yes.”
“Was Ivy there that night?”
“Yes.”
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
“Was Ivy there that night?”
“You’d just come out of surgery. Claire needing money didn’t seem like something you needed to carry too.”
The answer came too quickly.
“Because our son thinks you gave your sister money and she walked away with Claudia.”
Robert sank into a chair.
“No. No, Mel…”
“You’d just come out of surgery.”
“He’s been saving his lunch money to buy his sister back. Because that’s what he understood in that moment.”
He covered his mouth.
His shoulders shook once.
“Did you hold Ivy?”
He looked up.
“Who told you that?”
“Did you hold Ivy?”
“Willie saw you touch the baby.”
Robert closed his eyes.
“Did you?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“I don’t know.”
“Did you?”
“Try.”
His mouth twisted.
“I needed to hold a baby. I needed a moment to put my grief on hold.”
Robert had lost Claudia too. But something still didn’t fit.
“Why couldn’t Claire look at me the next day?”
“I needed to hold a baby.”
He went still.
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