Chapter 2: Something He Found Out Three Months Ago
Noah looked straight at Daniel and asked, quietly, without a single trace of anger:
"Did you know about us?
Or did you really think we weren't real?"
The room stopped breathing.
Margaret made a sound I will never forget.
Not a word.
Just something low and broken that came from deep in her chest.
Daniel's mouth opened.
Closed.
Opened again.
"I—" He stopped.
"It was complicated."
"Complicated," Margaret repeated.
Her voice was completely flat.
Claire had backed herself against the wall.
She was staring at Daniel like she was seeing him for the first time.
"How long have you known?" she asked him.
He didn't answer her.
That was its own answer.
Ethan had been quiet the whole time.
He was the one who looked most like Daniel — same jaw, same eyes, same way of going still when something was wrong.
He stepped forward now and stood beside his brother.
"We're not complicated," he said.
"We're eight."
Something shifted in the room.
An older man near the fireplace — Daniel's uncle, I thought — set down his glass and walked out without a word.
Then Daniel said the thing that changed everything.
He looked at me, not the children, and said:
"I need to talk to you alone.
There's something you don't know.
Something I found out three months ago."
My blood went cold.
Because the way he said it — he wasn't asking for forgiveness.
He was afraid.
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What did Daniel find out three months ago — and why is he afraid?
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