almost laughed.
“Then what?”
Grandpa looked down at Nora’s mismatched eyes, and tears filled his own.
“I promised your mother I would never tell you. Sarah made me swear, years before the crash.”
“Swear what?”
“That you would grow up without that family in your life.”
He looked away.
“And after she died, I was glad to keep that promise. After what William did to her, I wanted nothing from that family anywhere near you.”
I lowered myself onto the top porch step and gripped the railing.
“What did William
