“That’s not fair.”
“Your mother gets loud when she hears no. I stayed quiet because I loved you. Which one of us was easier to disappoint?”
Richard looked down.
Susan already knew the answer.
After a long silence, he whispered,
“I thought you were stronger.”
Susan almost smiled.
That sentence explained almost everything.
“Being stronger didn’t mean I deserved less support.”
“I know that now.”
“But knowing it now doesn’t erase the years I spent without you understanding it.”
Richard finally asked the question he had been avoiding.
“Did you
