She was frightened.
But something still bothered me.
“Why keep him covered even after the injuries healed?”
“At first, I thought the marks would fade completely,” she said. “I didn’t want people asking questions while they were still noticeable.”
She glanced toward the living room.
“Then summer came, and they were still there. Every time you offered to change him, I panicked. I kept thinking I could explain everything later.”
“But later never came,” Josh said.
Megan shook her head.
“I know.”
I remembered all those visits when Finn had been bundled up in long sleeves, even when the weather was warm.
“You could have told me.”
Megan looked directly at me.
“Would you really have understood?”
Before I could answer, she added something that stopped me.
“Do you remember what you said when I was pregnant?”
I frowned.
“We talked about lots of things.”
“We were sitting in your kitchen. You were telling me about raising Josh.”
