She was looking at Noah.
The room tilted.
Noah stood three steps above us, gripping the railing so tightly his knuckles were white.
“Why did Grandma just call me that?”
No one answered.
He looked at me, and I saw the moment he understood there was a secret beneath every secret.
“Elena,” my father said hoarsely, “you should have told him.”
“Told him what?” Noah demanded.
Rachel was staring too.
Not afraid.
