“And you told me my son was dead?”
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Helen nodded.“They told Rachel that you had abandoned her and the baby.”Mark stumbled backward as though someone had struck him.
Suddenly, all of his behavior over the years began to make sense.
Every disappointment.
Every long stare at fathers with their sons.
Every time he had insisted, “This time it’ll be a boy.”
He hadn’t simply wanted a son.
He had been trying to replace something he believed he had lost forever.
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But there was still something I didn’t understand.
“If you believed Tyler was dead, why did you never tell me about him?”
Mark sat down and covered his face with his hands.
“Because I couldn’t even say his name out loud. I blamed myself for years. I thought that if I had been older, if I’d had more money, if I had been able to protect Rachel better… maybe he would have lived.”
