“But you refused,” I said, hearing and feeling the sadness in Gramps’s voice.
He nodded and reached for his wine.
“At first I did. I told her not to marry him and she went off and did it anyway. I swore hell would freeze over before I ever spoke to the two of them again. But Mollie came down with cancer. A form of cancer that spread rapidly. The doctors said she had only months to live and hearing that news she begged me to go to your parents and make amends. I loved your grandmother more than life itself, son. Loved her like that the moment I first laid eyes on her. There wasn’t anything I wouldn’t do to please her.”
“So, you approached Turner’s parents and asked … what?” Debra whispered.
“I told Mendy I was an i***t. A fool. A crazy bastard who had no right to be so damn stupid. I to
