Chapter 4

I heard a door close on Ethan’s end.

Six years ago, Renee had come back to town for her father’s funeral. They drank too much. It happened once. She discovered she was pregnant shortly after, when Ethan and I had barely been married. He was terrified that I would leave, terrified that Lila would go through another man walking out of her life, so he agreed to support Noah as his father—as long as Renee kept it secret.

Every sentence was an attempt to build a reason beneath what he had done.

The truth remained the same.

He had watched…