in front of everyone you know, then you are already a luckier man than I ever was.
I stopped reading.
My throat tightened.
There was more.
Ask your father about Daniel.
That was all.
Five words that seemed to pull the floor out from beneath me.
Daniel.
I had never heard that name in connection with my grandfather.
I looked at my father.
He had gone completely pale.
“Dad?” I asked.
He stood so abruptly that his chair scraped against the ground.
“Not here,” he said.
Claire’s expression hardened.
“That
