“Luke makes her smile all the time.”

Luke hugged Jack close. “And I’ll never be mean to her,” he promised.

Margaret held her hand out to Jack. “Let’s go find your brother.”

Luke met Margaret’s concerned gaze. “He’s in the library with my dad playing video games.”

Margaret took Jack’s hand. “Jack will show me the way. Why don’t you check on Sarah? She probably needs you right now.”

Luke gave Jack a hug and a kiss on the top of his head and sent him with his grandma. He sat at the table with his brother until Margaret and the boy left the room.

His mother stood, came closer, crossed her arms across her chest, and dropped her voice. “Who takes their child to buy jewelry for their mistress? Who does that? I like Margaret, but her son . . . What kind of man does that?”

“He turned into an even bigger asshole than I imagined. Sarah confessed to Margaret the other day that Sean had been having an affair and embezzling money from the company. That’s probably why he threatened her. In addition to the theft, he’d been passing off her work as his own.” Luke fisted his hands. “If Sean wasn’t already dead, I’d kill him for treating her the way he did.”

Luke worried about how much pain Sarah had locked inside herself. He understood now why she was so cautious and how hard it must have been for her to trust him.

Jason tapped the table to get his attention. “I wonder how much more Jack remembers.”

Luke wished Jack only remembered the good things Sarah told him. No kid, especially one so young, should think about how his father hurt his mother and made her cry. “He’s a smart kid. He was about four when Sean died. I think the affair had been going on for a while.”

“My God.” His mother’s distress was nothing compared to how he felt. “That poor girl has been through so much in her life. Go find her. She could use someone on her side for once.”

No doubt. And Luke wanted to be there for Sarah, to see her through whatever happened next. He knew contacting Trish would open a Pandora’s box of past hurts, but hoped Sarah was ready for it when she’d decided to try to bring the kids together.

It was one thing to know Sean cheated and had a child with another woman, but it was another to hear Jack talk about the reality of what that had been like in the moment for them.

Margaret still looked emotionally drained and utterly disappointed and disillusioned by the revelations she’d learned about Sean. He wondered how she’d take finding out about Jamie.

They’d all agreed to hold off telling her until Trish made contact—if she ever did—and agreed to meet with them.

After all Sean had put Sarah through, maybe this was too much to ask of her. She seemed to have gotten past Sean’s deceit and the hurt he’d caused, but this visit with Margaret and finding out about Jamie had to have opened old wounds.