Seventy Two.

Fallon

“Are you sure that you have never met him?” I ask for the tenth time.

Cleo groans into the table. She had been resting her forehead on the wood since she sat down.

“I swear. Lorna would never let anyone meet him. He was this huge secret. Obviously I know why now. But she would tell us things and then when questioned. She would shut us down.”

“Who is ‘us’?”

“Mum, Dad and me. If we start