Chapter 13 - MARGARET FINALLY TOLD DANIEL THE ONE THING HE NEEDEDDaniel met Margaret with a therapist present.
He asked one question.
“Did you love me?”
Margaret cried immediately.
“Yes.”
“Would you have raised me if I owned nothing?”
She stopped.
That pause almost answered.
Then:
“Yes.”
“Would Dad?”
She looked away.
Daniel closed his eyes.
There it was.
Margaret may have loved him.
Robert’s motives were more tangled.
A baby.
A dead mistress.
Guilt.
Property.
Reputation.
Control.
Daniel had spent his life as all of those things at once.
He said:
“You should have told me about Elise.”
“I was your mother.”
“You were.”
Margaret looked up.
He continued:
“And she was too.”
That broke her.
Not because Daniel rejected Margaret.
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Because he refused to erase Elise to preserve her.
For the first time, the two mothers were allowed to exist in the same sentence.
