moved closer.
After surgery?
Gideon’s hand tightened around the pencil.
Nothing.
The cabin seemed suddenly much colder.
Rosalie stared at the signature again.
Her father had operated on Gideon.
Before that operation, Gideon still possessed some hearing.
Afterward, he had none.
At least not in the damaged ear.
She wrote:
What did your father say?
Gideon’s
jaw flexed.
He said accident destroyed it.
And your mother?
His expression softened.
She blamed herself for letting Ashford operate.
Rosalie closed her eyes.
For years she had believed her mother, Eleanor, was the
