Chapter 12: Dad“Gavin…is…my…son?”
Pete digested the revelation, knowing his sister had carefully harvested it for just the right moment.
“I realize you have questions,” she offered.
“Thirty years’ worth,” he snapped. “Have I just been existing as a series of ovals to be blackened out on your master checklist?”
“There’s no list,” Didi promised.
“Then it was a full-blown calendar! On day one, casually reveal Mom munched some carpet. Day two, we relive how I beat up your married lover! And as we go into day three, it’s ‘you’ve already met your son you didn’t know you had in the restaurant your father built.’”
“Dad told me everything after a really dire consult with the oncologist,” Didi revealed. “Gloria was all-set to have an abortion, but her mother was not. Did you even know they wer
