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He leaned against the counter, arms crossed over his chest.
“She left when he was little.”
“Left?”
“She walked out when he was a toddler.
He barely remembers her. Just that she stopped coming back.”
“Yes.”
My father shook his head slowly. “That’s not natural.”
I counted to ten in my head.
“But where’s the mother now?” he pressed.
“She died a few years ago, before I met Thomas.
That seemed to satisfy something in him, though not in a good way. Like it confirmed whatever theory he’d already built in his mind.
“So now you’re playing house with a widower’s child.”
I turned to face him fully. “I’m marrying a man I love.”
“And inheriting someone else’s mess.”
Dad shook his head again, that practiced gesture of disappointment I’d seen so many times before.
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