Chapter Forty-Three
Now that Gloria had told her daughters, Ash was under pressure to tell her dad. Sally and Janey had taken it well, but they were young adults. Ash’s dad was a man in his late sixties who had known Gloria since before Ash was even born.
It also wasn’t fair on her dad that both her mother and her brother already knew, and he didn’t. If she waited too long, he might actually get more upset about being the last to know than about the actual news.
When she woke up on Saturday morning, after arriving in Murraywood late on Friday, her mother theatrically announced that she was going to the store, leaving Ash alone with her father. She all but winked at Ash when she closed the door behind her.
“I’ll be in the garden if you need me,” her dad said. “Unless you want to give yo
