the relatives closest to Daniel what had happened.
She didn’t defend herself or pretend the secrecy had been right.
She simply explained what Daniel had asked of her and admitted that she had agreed.
For the first time, the secret no longer belonged only to me.
The twins’ birthday photographs stayed on my table.
Daniel wasn’t standing beside us in any of them.
But the empty space no longer felt exactly the same.
He had left his watch for Owen.
His grandmother’s necklace for Mia.
Letters for birthdays, milestones, heartbreaks,
