“You should.”
He slowly lifted the small box.
“Your brother talked about you every day.”
Clara’s eyes filled with tears.
“How?”
Daniel took a breath.
“Because I was there.”
The room seemed to become completely still.
I stepped outside and closed the door behind me.
“Tell me everything.”
Daniel nodded.
“I will.”
He looked down at the box.
“But not here.”
I didn’t trust him.
I didn’t even know if I believed what I was seeing.
But something in his expression wasn’t the expression of a man who had come to cause harm.
It was the expression of someone who had been carrying something heavy for a very long time.
I opened the door again.
“Come inside.”
Daniel entered.
Clara hadn’t moved.
Maya and Sophie were standing beside her, confused and frightened.
I introduced him.
“This is Daniel. He was Ethan’s best friend.”
Clara stared at him.
