Marcus' expression went dark as he looked at Sally. "What's the point of saying any of this now? Benjamin is gone. Are you trying to destroy my mother too?"
Sally's voice stayed sharp. "So you'd rather she spend the rest of her life hating your father for something he didn't do? He carried that burden for years in silence. Why can't you let him rest as an innocent man?"
"I'm the one who should have died!" Sharon cried out, pulling herself to her feet. When her eyes found Sally, something cracked open in her expression, and she began laughing through her tears. "He loved me. He always loved me. He never stopped."
The laugh was all wrong. The look behind her eyes was even worse. I moved close to Marcus and said quietly, "You need to get her to a hospital. Something inside her is breaking right now."
