Beth nodded.
“I know that now.”
Then she told me how Stefan had started becoming suspicious himself.
He had found an old hospital photograph.
In it, Mark was sitting in a chair holding two newborn babies wrapped in matching blankets.
Stefan asked him about it.
At first, Mark said one baby belonged to a cousin.
Later he changed the story.
Then he told Stefan that Cole had the same father but a different mother.
Stefan believed him because children believe the versions of truth adults give them.
That was why
