"I didn't know to ask. Not until I found something in the basement of this place when I didn't even know it had one. Then I only knew...something. Enough to do research. Enough to track down every lead I found back to my father. It wasn't until I broke into his computer system that I realized you were involved. And that was just this morning."

It had answered a few questions and raised over a dozen more. And he had even more questions now, but it felt nice to just lie here with Michael and ignore the stampede of elephants in the room.

"And besides, if you wanted to tell me...why didn't you?"