I looked at Ethan carefully, searching his face.

“Your father did that?”

“My mother started talking fast,” Ethan said.

“She told him we had to present a united front so your father wouldn’t take legal action against the household.”

“And Richard?”

“My dad looked her right in the eye,” Ethan said.

“He didn’t raise his voice.

He just said, ‘The only person in that driveway trying to use power was you.'”