Chapter 5
Maude Clare
“You’re lying,” said Maude Clare. “There’s no way that Sincerity is your sister. That doesn’t even make sense. She grew up in foster care. She doesn’t have a family.”
He seemed to try to laugh but it came out as a cough instead. He didn’t sound well as he gasped for breath. “Everyone has a family,” he said, “or did once. Everyone comes from somewhere.”
“So, she came from your family? You have the same parents?”
“The same mother,” he said. “Our fathers were never important.”
“So what? Were you raised as a foster kid, too?” It occurred to her that she knew nothing about this man. Now, sitting beside his head, the earth creeping up as the ground devoured him, for the first time she regretted that. She had a very limited amount of time to ask him anything, to learn
