Chapter 19“That's incredible.” I understood now why Connor would have to step away from the investigation. “Did you know you had an aunt you'd never met? Or did you find out today?”
“Just today. Pop had always thought his mother was losing her mind in the end. Grandma Gemma only revealed her secret as a deathbed confession. She'd been too embarrassed and thought he'd be angry on behalf of his late father, who'd died to protect her from apartheid.” Connor noted that his father had returned to South Africa only once to visit his mother, and he remembered a young girl whom she'd babysat. Gemma had claimed the child belonged to a neighbor, and Victor believed his mother. “When my grandmother contacted my dad to tell him she was dying in 1986, I'd just been born. Pop couldn't get away to visit
