Slowly, Kara lowered her head. She couldn't look her son straight in the eye. "Mommy was also surprised when Mommy met him at the office, Louis."

"But Mommy said that our Daddy had died. Why did Mommy lie? Is it because Mommy didn't have the heart to tell us that our Daddy was a bad person?"

Kara got tightness in her chest. She took a breath, but her lungs only got hotter. She was really confused about how to explain.

"Actually ...," she swallowed hard and looked out the window, "our meeting ...