The Truth About My FatherDinner was a quiet affair.Ezra took her to a restaurant hidden in the basement of an old building, a place with no sign on the door and no menu posted outside. The host knew Ezra by name. The waiter brought wine without asking. The table was in a private corner, surrounded by velvet curtains, and Vienna felt like she had stepped into another world.She ordered fish she could not pronounce. She drank wine that probably cost more than her weekly rent. She laughed at things he said and touched his hand across the table and pretended that her brother's words were not echoing in her head with every breath.He is the reason our father is dead.Ezra must have sensed something was wrong. He watched her through the candlelight, his dark eyes steady and searching, and he asked fewer questions than usual. He did not push. He did not demand. He just sat with her in the quiet and let her be.By the time dessert arrived, Vienna could not take it anymore."I need to know e
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