“Don’t tell Johnny,” he strangled out, chest heaving. “Please. I don’t want him to know anything about it.” “I won’t,” I promised, already knowing that Gibs didn’t want anyone outside of the family to know. “I haven’t told him anything before, have I?” “No,” he croaked out, sniffling. “But I haven’t told him about it, and I don’t want him to think badly of me.”