Daniel stepped toward him. “Ethan, maybe you shouldn’t be talking about things you don’t understand.”
I immediately moved between them. “Do not ever dictate to him what he is allowed to talk about.”
Rachel’s face went pale. “A whole lot of times?” Ethan nodded. “Sometimes my tummy gets hungry, but Dad says I’m not allowed upstairs.”
I grabbed his bag. Then I walked out. Two hours later, Ethan was finally asleep in a warm bed at my mother’s house.
My phone showed seventeen missed calls from Daniel. I ignored every one.
Then the eighteenth call came. Rachel. I almost rejected it. Instead, I answered.
“What do you possibly want?” She was sobbing. “I really need to see you.”
“We have absolutely nothing left to discuss.” “Yes, we do.” A long silence followed.
Then she whispered: “Claire… Daniel wasn’t just cheating on you with me.”
I closed my eyes. “What else did he do?” Rachel drew in a shaky breath.
“For weeks, he’s been promising me that Ethan would be coming to live with him very soon.”
My eyes snapped open. “What are you talking about?” “He told me he was preparing to file for full custody.”
My heart started hammering. Then Rachel said the sentence that made everything suddenly much more dangerous.
“And he bragged that he already had the perfect way to prove you were an absent mother.”
That was when I realized the affair with my sister might actually be the smallest part of what Daniel had been planning behind my back.
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