Chapter 259

Hearing that, Henry Smith wasn’t so confident anymore. He shot a question back at me, “Even if we don’t tell him now, we’ll end up telling him someday. So what’s the difference? Might as well come clean earlier.” “You ever saw parents drop the divorce bomb on their kid right before college entrance exams?” I snapped. “Evan just escaped from human traffickers—his little heart's already been through hell and back. If it wasn’t for you pushing him to call you ‘dad,’ I wouldn’t even be thinking about telling him we’re married right now.” “Oh please. You think just keeping quiet means he won’t find out? Jason’s still missing, clearly not coming home, and he's bound to stay with us. There are so many people in the house—can you seriously keep everyone’s mouth shut? And even if they don’t mention it, what, we’re not sending him to school? Eventually, he’ll figure out we’re married. It’ll hit him harder then.” “Exactly. That’s why I gave in,” I said. “Fine, we’ll tell him we’re married. But ab