“Yes.”

“I took his concern about not overwhelming you and turned it into withholding information when you were already frightened.”

“You let me think he’d had a child with someone else.”

“I knew I couldn’t disclose everything about Leo’s case.

But that didn’t mean I had to leave you with no proper way to understand the family connection.”

I folded Simon’s letter along its existing crease.

“Why did he do it?”