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A pang hits me in the chest at the realization that she was worried about such a thing.
You’re failing her by not telling her about her past, jackass.
“Do you want to know anything else?”
I’ve been too caught up in my own shit to realize that it’s important to her to know these simple little things that are just natural for a person to know.
“How much did you pay to try and find me?”
This is something that I never planned on telling her about. Jillian must have told her about what I did, to some extent.
“Not enough, apparently, because all I had to do was go to an education charity in a small little town an hour away from here.”
I want to make her laugh, but the way she is looking at me tells me that I’m not off the hook.
“Why don’t you want to tell me?”
I move so that I’m lying on my back again and reach around her waist to pull her down onto my chest. Her face level with mine.
“Because I don’t want you to put a number on something that I would ultimately spend every penny I have on.”
Her hair has fallen in her face, and I reach up to brush it away.
“There isn’t a limit to what I would do for you.”
She searches my face, and I hope that she can see how much I mean it.
I don’t see much of my girls on Sunday. I have work to do, and I spend most of the day locked away in my home office trying to fix the presentation that marketing gave me. They didn’t do bad with it, but I want, no, need it to be perfect. We need more customers.
Around one, I get a text from Tanya.
Tanya: If you want to say goodbye to your daughter, you need to do so now. We are getting ready to leave. Kayla is here.
The tone of the text worries me, but I brush it off as her being nervous about the drive back to Willow Creek.
Me: On my way down.
I close the documents I’ve been working on and make my way down to the girl’s apartment. The door is partially open, so I walk in.
“I’m here.”
I listen to see where they are in the apartment and follow the sound of soft voices coming from the kitchen. Tanya and Kayla are standing at the island, talking, and from the looks of it, it’s about something important.
“Hey, you guys ready to go?”
Tanya doesn’t even look at me as she nods her head toward the hall that leads to the spare rooms.
“Soph’s in her room grabbing some things.”
Feeling dismissed, I head over to the hall, trying to catch Tanya’s eye as I do.
What happened between last night and now?
When I get to her room, Sophia is shoving things into a book bag.
“What in the world are you doing?”
She doesn’t even flinch as I walk in and sit on her bed.
