Unbeknownst
He stood with one sleeve half off, looking at nothing in particular, and I watched the argument form behind his face and then watch itself, carefully, being set down.
"I will think about it," he said finally. "I'm not dismissing you, Ellie. But I also can't afford to start seeing a conspiracy in every polite question. If I do that, I lose the one chance Lucas has of knowing his mother. And I would rather be wrong about a man's manners than wrong about that."
It was fair. It was so fair that I couldn't find anything to say against it.
I lay awake for a long time afterward, listening to the old house settle, thinking about a smear in the dust and a man's easy smile and a question about guardia
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