The Last One at the Wedding

by Jason Rekulak

It’s a tactic I learned from my wife, Colleen: she used to say that if you wanted a kid to share things, you couldn’t interrupt them with lots of questions. You had to shut up and let them talk.

So I willed myself to accept Maggie’s explanation of Dawn Taggart, and I ignored the quiet voice in my brain saying something felt wrong.

“This is my niece. She got pregnant with Aidan Gardner’s baby and he killed her.”