“Because they brought Dad to the basement site three days ago.”

Martha gripped the metal bed rail tightly.

“He was still alive three days ago?”

The reality hit her with crushing force.

Thomas had been alive just three days prior.

After thirty long years of believing he was dead, she had missed seeing him alive by less than a week.

“Did your father recognize who you were?” Martha managed to ask.

“Only intermittently,” Christopher answered softly as tears pooled in his eyes.