Chapter 21

"Beth never told me exactly what happened after that, but I suspect it's because she wanted to spare me the details of your suffering. Since after she met with Melinda and secured a meeting through her with Andrew Troy, that's when Beth found you, isn't it? In prison, held captive for something you had nothing to do with."

Daniel had said nothing as his mother recounted the long tale, the story of everything Beth had done while he had been useless in captivity in Andrew Troy's custody. There had been significant holes in the account - for instance, his mother still had no idea what that alleged meeting between Beth and Matthew Catii had been about in the rear courtyard, according to the Delta's report - but everything the Luna knew, she told her son without excluding a single detail. There was still a lot to know, but...

He hadn't known. No - more than that, he hadn't asked because this was exactly what he was afraid of. Daniel didn't understand this kind of unreasonable generosity, l