I read that sentence repeatedly.

He chose not to fight.

Father wrote that he later learned another employee had confessed to diverting the funds.

By then years had passed.

He found Evie’s name in an old adoption notice but never contacted her.

He feared she would resent him, and he feared I would resent him if I learned how he had abandoned my sister.

At the end he wrote: Silence was my second betrayal.

The first was leaving her.