smile faded. “I know.”
I never forgot you.
I started crying before I could stop myself.
Then he said something that changed everything. “Someone didn’t want me to come back to you. You won’t believe who.”
“What?”
He looked toward the hallway. “Your sister.”
I actually laughed. “Helen?”
You won’t believe who.
“She knew I was alive.”
“No.”
“She knew.”
“That’s impossible.”
Danny reached for my hand. “She made sure you disappeared before I could find you.”
And just like that, the happiest moment of my life became the beginning of the ugliest question I’d ever had to ask.
She knew I was alive.
I let him inside.
For the next two hours, Danny told me a story that made fifty-five years of my life look completely different.
“I spent months recovering. For a while, I couldn’t even write.”
“Who took care of you?”
“Doctors. Nurses. There was one nurse,
