SERA
“Read it out loud.”
She had not planned to say that. The words came out before she decided them, aimed at no one in particular, aimed at the air inside the car because she needed to hear her mother’s voice in some form, any form, even her own carrying it.
Elliot did not tell her she did not have to.
He did not say anything at all.
She read.
My darling Sera.
If you are reading this then something went wrong and I was not fast enough. I need you to know that I was not afraid. I need you to know that everything I did in these last months I did because the truth was too large to leave buried and I could not look at you and pretend I did not know what I knew.
Your father is a complicated man. He loves you. I need you to hold that alongside everything else you are going to learn abo
