LUCAS“What were you talking about?”The voice cut through the room and I clenched my jaw tightly, bracing myself for the absolute worst parent reveal.But my mother gasped and quickly wiped at her wet face. “Conrad, honey, you should go upstairs,” she said with a shaky voice.“No,” Connie said, his voice louder now, his face hard. “I heard you. You said something about me not being my daddy’s child. Who’s a carpenter’s son?”I pressed the folder against my chest tighter, my throat dry, but before I could speak my mother jumped in again, “It’s nothing you need to worry about, sweetheart. Grown-up things. Go back upstairs.”He took a step into the living room, his voice rude and hot. “Don’t lie to me! I heard him say it. Who’s a carpenter’s son? Is it me? Are you saying it’s me?”“Conrad,” my father said gently, standing halfway between him and us. “It’s not you we were talking about. Go back upstairs and—"“I’m not going upstairs!” Connie snapped, his eyes flicking to me with fury. “Y
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