Alex stared at her.
“You knew about this too?”
She shook her head quickly.
“Not everything.”
“Not everything?” Alex repeated. “What does that mean?”
Rebecca took a slow breath.
“That’s exactly why I’m here. Because all four of you deserve to know what was discussed, what was agreed to, and what was deliberately left unsaid.”
She turned toward me.
“You were right to insist on a conversation before anyone left this house.”
Then she pushed the envelope toward me.
I reached for the first page.
And before I could read a single line, Sean said something that made everyone freeze.
“Please,” he whispered. “If you read that, there’s no going back.”
I looked at the man I had married eighteen years earlier.
For the first time, I understood that he wasn’t afraid of losing the experiment he had proposed.
He was afraid of what would happen when I finally learned the truth.
