Tess met her gaze. "Because he couldn't stand the thought of you all being happy without him."
"He wants us to fight," Juniper said quietly. "Even now." henti incest
And then there were the in-laws: , Elena’s second husband, who watched everyone like a card counter at a blackjack table; and Tess , Sam’s wife, who had been Arthur’s hospice nurse before she was Sam’s anything. That little detail had never been discussed aloud. It hung in the air like smoke. Tess met her gaze
"Then why the prompt?" Juniper asked, looking at Tess directly. "Why force us to sit here every year if he felt nothing?" That little detail had never been discussed aloud
Mark put a hand on her arm. She shook it off.
Juniper flinched. She’d never heard that story.
Silence. The kind that fills a room like floodwater.