My Father Pushed Me Into a Fountain at My Sister’s Wedding—Then He Met the Husband I’d Kept Private for Three Years

“You can wait.

Or tell me the question is urgent.

You don’t have to fill the silence with his explanation.”

Her hand moved toward a napkin on the counter, then stopped before she picked it up.

“I’ve spent a long time trying to keep everybody calm.”

“I know.”

“I thought that was helping.”

“Sometimes it helped him avoid the question.”