Everything inside me shattered.
I started toward her, but Robert got there first. He dropped to one knee, opened his arms, and Sophie ran straight into him.
“Yes,” he said, holding her tight. “I am. I always will be. Nothing anybody says changes that.”
She buried her face in his neck. “Then why did Aunt Claire say it?”
No one at the table had the courage to answer.
Robert did. “Because she said something cruel and untrue. And grown-ups have to answer for that.”
Sophie turned her tear-streaked face toward Claire. For the first time all night, Claire looked like she understood what she had done.
And for the first time all night, regret appeared on her face.
My sister-in-law rose in the middle of dinner and accused me of cheating in front of everyone. Then she turned to my little girl and said Robert wasn’t really her father. My husband stayed composed, pressed a single button, and within minutes they understood they had made the worst mistake of their lives.
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