Claire had answered those questions as carefully as she could.
« Families are different, sweetheart, » she would say. « And not every story begins the same way. »
Whenever Iris asked for more details about her father, Claire found a reason to postpone the conversation. Sometimes she said Iris was too young to understand. Other times she insisted that the past was complicated and that they would discuss it when the time was right.
The truth was that Claire had never found a time she considered safe enough.
She had spent years believing that silence could protect her daughter from pain. She told herself that the secret belonged to another chapter of her life, one that had ended long before Iris could remember anything. She thought that if she raised Iris with enough love and stability, the details of that chapter would eventually become unimportant.
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But secrets rarely remain harmless simply because people stop talking about them.
On prom night, Claire was determined to put those worries aside.
