Hanna had no choice but to quickly concede; the last thing she wanted was for Jacob to ask questions about Goose that she’d be forced to make up lies for. It was stupid of her to have used her brother as an excuse, but he’d been on her mind a lot recently. Certain memories were haunting her with greater frequency and intensity, like how Goose had been a shining beacon—for the whole family—in the years after she returned home from the school for peculiar children.
