CHAPTER 145

DECLAN

I must have misheard her—I had to have. There was simply no possible way my father, the man I had always looked up to and respected, would have done something so reckless, so deceitful. The notion that he could have cheated on my mother, fathered a child outside of their marriage, and then kept that child a secret for so many years—it seemed unthinkable. It was like my brain refused to proc