I said nothing.
“So I told myself I was wrong.” She wiped beneath one eye with the heel of her hand. “I told myself the wristband could have been from an emergency room visit. I told myself he’d collapsed because he wasn’t eating. I told myself if something serious was happening, Wade would tell us.”
Her gaze swung toward Wade.
He flinched.
“And Wade said nothing,” Elise continued.
“Meryl’s treatment had just started,” Wade said.
“I am not talking to you.”
“Elise—”
“I called you.”
“I remember.”
“I asked you directly whether Dad was sick.”
Wade’s face sagged.
Jonah stood again. “You did what?”
Elise did not look away from Wade. “I said, ‘He looks sick. Is something wrong with him?’ And you told me, ‘Randall has made his choices.’”
Wade closed his eyes.
“I did.”
“You knew exactly what I was asking.”
“Yes.”
“You let me think I was imagining it.”
