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I had a thought "I have a question for you Soht never made sense to me Do you remember when I sent Jerry to you with the divorce papers?"

I’d even gone so far as to ask Jerry about this, but he’d assured me that he handed the papers and the note directly into Tristan’s care, so I’d gotten no answers there

Tristan had see the questions, but so about my question seemed to have weakened him

He moved to the table in his breakfast nook, felt for a chair, and sat down, looking at his hands "Yes, I re hi out the This subject was hard enough to face, without having to face each other, as well "Do you remember the letter I sent with the papers?"

There was a very long pause, then soh he’d taken exception to his chair or the ground it was sitting on

My stomach churned when he answered behind me, his tone just aith pain and confusion, "What letter?"

My eyes squeezed shut I didn’t want to dig into the old wounds, but ignoring theo away "When I sent Jerry to you with the divorce papers, there was a letter with them A very important letter For you Jerry swears to er silence passed with itated movements

"What did it say?" he finally asked in the ht it up, but I trudged on There was no going back now He’d been like a dog with a bone before I’d openedmouth about the letter There was no question he’d be even more relentless with still more questions in the h, I want to knohat happened to it Were you alone when he came to see you? He told me he didn’t see anyone else at the apart in the kitchen Near the sink, likely a plate, I thought, but I didn’t look

This was rough enough, just hearing what it was doing to him

"Dean was at the apartment with me He came out of his room after Jerry left He’d heard Jerry’s voice, wanted to knoas going on"

"The letter was tucked into the papers," I explained, keeping o No new fresh wounds for me here, just sore old ones Not so for Tristan Some of this was very new to hih them Is there any chance you set them down before…before you read the in the kitchen I could hear his heavy, ragged breaths catching as hethis well

"I did I set them on the coffee table and went to pour some shots I didn’t want to read the papers without a drink I didn’t think I could handle theht into place

"And Dean, I take it he was near the coffee table when you turned your back?"