Silence settled over the room,not the comfortable kind. The heavy kind that seemed to press against everyone's chest.
Alexander's words echoed through the study long after he had spoken them.
"Some truths should stay buried." No one moved. No one dared to interrupt the memory that had suddenly resurfaced after so many years.
Clara studied Alexander's face carefully. She had seen him angry,she had seen him determined,she had even seen him afraid. But this… This expression was different.
He looked like a man questioning everything he had believed about his own family.
Margaret was the first to break the silence. "Are you certain that's what your father said?" Alexander nodded slowly. "I've tried to remember that afternoon many times over the years."
"I never understood why those words
