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“Like he listened to you when he was a kid? Always gettin between us!” His eyes jerked back to Cain “You ain’t gonna stop, are ya?”

“No,” Cain said without hesitation

“Honey, don’t say that,” Cain’s h and desperate She turned to face Cain and I was stunned to see her close the distance between her and her son by more than half “Tell your father you know he didn’t do those things you accused him of…tell him you were confused”

“I wasn’t confused about who stuck that butcher knife intotimes, Mom!” Cain said coldly “Just like Hailey wasn’t confused about who she was trying to hide from in that bathroom or whose eyes were the last ones Daniel and Justin saw as they begged for their lives or who little A knife went clean through her body, thecrib!”

“No,” his nored his father and stepped forward enough to grab his mother by the arms

“It was him, Mom!” he whispered, his voice heavy with sorrow “You know it! I know you do!”

She shook her head violently, but I didn’tdown her cheeks

“That’s how he loves you,” Cain ground out “By killing your kids! That’s what he called them, too, did you know that?” Cain bit out “Yours, not yours and his! He never wanted us He told me that the day he buried that knife in ave you kids because you wanted the for you!” Cain released his mother and pushed her away from him “If that’s love to you, you’re as sick as he is”

Moira’s sobs increased as she buried her face in her hands

“Moira, sweetheart, you know that’s not true Everything I’ve done, I’ve done for you I caun on Cain while he moved closer to his wife “I was a free et you So we can be together”

Moira half-heartedly nodded as she wiped at her eyes But she didn’t move forward towards her husband “Maybe…e how stressed you were back then…that you didn’t knohat you were doing”

I saw Cain stiffen at his mother’s words and I kneas the first time she’d admitted the truth out loud