He knew there was an explanation.
I turned to Lily.
She was crying again.
“Did you know that too?”
His chin trembled. “Not at first.”
Daniel said, “Lily...”
“No,” he said, drying his face. I'm sick of everyone talking for me.
“At first no.”
I looked at her.
“When did you know?”
“A few weeks after I started your class, I saw a picture at Grandma’s house. You and Maggie.”
I sat down again.
“Dad told me you were Uncle Paul’s wife. He told me not to mention it because things were complicated.”
“When did you know?”
Daniel rubbed his face with both hands.
“I told him not to get in. I didn’t understand that Paul hadn’t told you anything.”
“I thought you knew at first,” he said. Then I realized that no. And one day you looked at me when I picked up my hair and just...
