I nodded. “Done.”
“And Rowan?”
“Yes?”
“If you confront Claire before we know where Lily is, you could scare the only people who know the truth into silence.”
I had already thought of that, but hearing Lily’s name made it real.
“I won’t confront her.”
Megan shifted the babies again. “You’ll have to lie convincingly.”
I almost smiled. “Apparently everyone else in my life has had practice.”
She did not smile back.
“I’m going inside,” she said.
I stepped aside.
At the door, she paused without turning. “There’s a clinic in Columbia. Tomorrow at nine. The boys have a checkup. Don’t come inside. Park across the street. If I decide you can meet the doctor, I’ll wave.”
It was not forgiveness.
It was a door opened the width of a breath.
“I’ll be there,” I said.
She entered the room and shut the door.
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