You could hear a pin drop. I maybe shouldn’t have approached the subject the way I did but I had to do something. I was all for moving on, it’s the only thing I wanted but I wasn’t going to do that until everything was out on the table. The air needed to be cleared once and for all.

I deserved that much right?

My gran cleared her throat before she got to her feet. “I’m going to make coffee and then we’ll move into the sitting area”.

No one said anything. I watched as she ...