feeling a strange exhilaration in arguing with Joe. “Part of relating to a man is learning how to have meaningful discussions. This is a meaningful discussion.”
Joe stared at her for a long moment as if considering his options, and just when Addy was beginning to think that he wasn’t going to say anything else, he dropped a bombshell.
“David Edwards is my half brother.”
Addy opened her mouth, closed it, swallowed and then muttered, “Run that by me again.”
“We have the same father but different mothers,” Joe elaborated.
Addy dropped into the chair across from Joe’s desk and simply stared at him, having a great deal of trouble taking it all in. “I never heard anything about it before,” she finally said.
“As far as I know, no one else knew. My mother went to work for Edwards right out of secretarial school, and he promptly seduced her into an affair. When she got pregnant a couple of years later, he broke the relationship off and abandoned her.”
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