“Dad,” I said.

“You have to tell me.

All of it.

Now.”

Chapter 19 — They Threatened Us

And so, at last, he did.

The words came out of him haltingly at first and then in a rush, ten years of them, dammed up and finally breaking loose.

“They threatened us, Evelyn,” he said, and the tears he had held back for a decade finally came.