First until our next date.
Then until the following month.
Eventually, Frank said, the longer he waited, the harder the truth became.
He wanted me to know that he had never married me because of the old agreement or because of the property.
In fact, he wrote that learning who my mother was had initially made him consider keeping his distance.
But he had fallen in love with me.
What troubled him most was his decision to remain silent while his children questioned my motives.
Brad and Stephanie had spent years believing that I had entered their father’s life because I wanted the house.
Frank admitted that he should have explained the history long before.
Instead, his silence allowed misunderstandings to grow.
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