Epilogue:
That night Aidan began reading through the files Robert had left for him? in them they told a tale of a man tortured with survivor's guilt. Josh had been hospitalized three times for suicidal depression, had been on and off antidepressants for over twenty years, and had seen the best shrinks in the Kansas area. In all of the reports many of the doctors suspected Josh was carrying a deep secret within him? something that was tearing him apart inside. It was only through Mary Williams digging however that Robert had found out the terrible truth.
Josh had loved his older brother Nathan, the one he had named his own son after. Nathan had also loved Josh? too much so? until the physical marks of what was happening could no longer be hidden. And even though the older Nathan had sworn Josh to secrecy the truth did come out. For it had not been a drive to a football game that Josh's parents had been driving their older son to but to court.
It was on reading the very last page however that Aidan dropped every? Nathan was alive.
From the airport Robert made his way to the car waiting for him. Sitting in the diver's seat wearing a business suit was Mary Williams a stern expression on her face. "You sure you want to do this?"
"I'm positive." Robert said as he entered the car, taking a package from underneath the car seat. Inside it was a gun.
To be continued in "Underline the Verb"