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“He is,” I replied.
“He, uh, living here with you now?”
“Sort of.”
“Hmm.”
“Daddy, why—”
“I need you to talk to your mama for me, convince her to take me back.”
My mouth dropped open. “What?”
“I need your help, Angie. You’re the only one who can do it. Renee’s got that husband taking up her time. And Nicky? She won’t answer my calls.”
“Daddy, why didn’t you just call me?”
“Baby girl, I don’t think I have your number.”
As I sat there and thought about it, I didn’t have his number, either. All communication went through Mama. Man, my family was truly screwed up.
“Daddy. I don’t want to get in the middle of this…”
“But will you?”
I sighed. “To be honest, I don’t want her to take you back.”
He frowned as he leaned forward. “What? You don’t want us back together?”
“No.”
“Angie!”
“Daddy, I’ve watched you mistreat her my whole life. I’m not going to help you hurt her more than you already have.”
He stared at me like I’d spoken a foreign language or something.
“Why are you out so late, anyway?” I asked.
He fell back in his chair. “I have a little place across town where I’ve been staying and I couldn’t sleep, so I decided to try to talk to your Mother. She wouldn’t even open the door. She wouldn’t let me in my own house.” He dropped his head, and when he looked up at me, there were tears in his eyes. “I messed up. I see that now. I guess I thought she’d never leave me. All these years…”
I leaned forward. “Do you love her, Daddy?”
He nodded. “With all my heart.”
“Then why did you treat her like that all those years?”
“I don’t feel right discussing that with you.”
“But you feel right coming over here in the middle of the night, waking me up to ask me to be your spokeswoman?”
He blew out a breath. “I don’t know why, Angie. Okay? I don’t know why.”
“Then maybe you need to figure it out and try to fix it before you talk to Mama. Get some help or something.”
I sat there for a few minutes, waiting for him to speak, but he didn’t, so I said, “Daddy, Ryan has work in the morning. If you want, you can have the guest bed.”
He shook his head. “No, I’ll just go back to my place. Um…Angie, you know I love you, don’t you?”
