I took out my phone and called him.
He answered after the second ring.
“Hello, sweetheart. Is everything all right?”
I closed my eyes.
“Dad, I need to ask you something about Mom.”
There was a long silence on the other end of the line.
Then his voice changed.
“What have you heard?”
And in that moment, I realized that whatever happened next would change everything I thought I knew about my family.
To be continued…
