“I got it from the nurse who took care of her,” Sanders admitted.
“Did you know?” Liam tossed at his father.
“That your mother was dead?”
“Yes.”
“Not definitively,” Finn admitted. “But I wondered.”
“Why would you wonder that?” Liam frowned, hearing the disbelief in his voice.
Finn gazed out the window and several expressions crossed his face. Liam knew that while Claire Jones Reade had made life difficult for her oldest son, she’d been even harder on his father.
“For years, I tried to tell myself your mother’s difficulties were my fault,” Finn replied. “But when I was confronting my ghosts, I finally realized they weren’t mine, but hers. While we were married, I did everything in my power to make her happy, even …”
But then his voice died, and Liam had to wonder what he had been go
