“Kyran?” Deirdre said calmly, “He injured his vocal cords, so he became mute and can only communicate with us through the phone.”

“Mute?” Hoyt frowned. “Are you sure?”

“Yes,” Deirdre replied with a smile. “What’s the matter? Why does it sound like you’re implying something?”

Hoyt did not know how to put the question in his head into words. ‘If Kyran is mute, then why did Dad say he can talk?’

His father was very confident of it, so the probability of him lying was close to zero. In other wo