Family gossip.
Someone would tell someone else.
Eventually Ethan might hear:
Margaret didn’t want you walking Claire because she didn’t want your face in the wedding photographs.
I could not allow that.
Ethan had spent almost a year grieving our father.
He had asked for one thing.
A job.
Dad’s job.
And he believed everybody was proud of him.
I was not giving Margaret the power to change that.
So I smiled.