THE BODYGUARD’S HIDDEN TRUTH
All of it — the shell company, my mother’s late-night discovery, the argument in the garden three days before she died, the posture Frank had described, the name he’d finally given up.
Ethan went very still. I watched something close behind his eyes, a door sliding shut the way it always did when the pain became too large to leave visible. “He’s certain,” Ethan said finally. It wasn’t a question. “He said he only saw the man once, from a distance. He wasn’t certain of a face. Only the posture.” “That’s not nothing.” “It’s not everything, either.” I reached for his hand, and he let me take it, though his fingers stayed tense in mine. “Ethan. I need to ask you something, and I need you to actu