My son hesitated. He looked at Dr. Parker. Then at the door. Then down at his hands.
“Mom, there’s something I never told you.”
My heart started beating faster. “What is it?”
He took a slow breath.
“After Dad died, when I was helping clean out the basement, I found a safe. Behind the old furnace. Behind the paneling. You didn’t know it was there.”
“A safe.”
“Gray steel. About this big.” He held his hands apart. “The combination was your anniversary. June 13th. 6-13-64.”Study Anatomy
I couldn’t speak.
“It had business contracts in it,” Daniel said. “Research papers. Bank documents. Some old medical files. Letters.”
“And?” My voice came out thin.
Daniel looked at me with an expression I’d never seen on his face before. Not since he was a little boy and broke the window over the kitchen sink and couldn’t figure out how to tell me.
