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I hadn’t given ’s history, but now that I think about it, it fits right in with irl, I like the sound of that Yeah, this is definitely the right thing to do I’ me the whole truth when she says that her parents know about us, but either way, it doesn’tunder her parents’ roof, and let’s not forget her age If her dad doesn’t kill me, it will be a miracle

I’hter to take on not only a divorced e of one and an ex-wife that may or may not be crazy I’m sure they have questions

I took a deep breath and rung the doorbell I could hearfrouests for the holiday Too late to turn back now Her dad answered the door with a big sar in the corner of his mouth He looked overback at me

“Where’s Jenny?”

“She’s back at the house with the girls I need to have a ith you alone, sorry, I forgot you had guests” He gaveback to let me in

“It’s alright coo up to my office They won’t miss me for a while, damn thieves” He called out to someone to take his hand, and I took that to ame

I followed hi hallway There were portraits of Jenny all over the place, on horseback, and pictures of her in every stage of her life froo

My heart tre front teeth because as I looked at it, I swear I saw our daughter Where the hell did that come from?

The ie was so real I almost tripped over my feet Her father opened the door to his office, and I followed hi the offered chair across from him as he sat behind his desk “I think I knohy you’re here” That’s all he said, leaving the rest of it hanging

I didn’t knohere to start now that I was here, but he’d given h “In that case, I had a whole speech planned, but that seems too contrived, so I’ll just say it I’ married”

Okay, I’m pretty sure I was supposed to pose that as a question But since I’d already oing to stopmore relaxed than I’d expected to once the words were finally out there Everything else is up to him now the ball is in his court

A long aard silence followed , just sitting there, looking atto decide where to put the body “Is that it?”

“Pardon?” Is her whole fa choice of words

“Boy, you took a I already knew?”

“I don’t understand, what do you know?” He sat back in his chair and swiveled it froure out just what heup short Maybe she had indeed told hiiven the situation, I’d expect hi

I’d probably have had my hands around his throat by now if I were in his shoes But he was just as cal the weather for all the inflection in his voice, just like his daughter I wonder if this is where she gets that calm reserve of hers? It’s not from her mother, that’s for sure

“Let’s see When ht or nine, she told her et hter, you should know that she doesn’t say things just for the sake of saying them”

“After I got through asking her for the particulars of why she was so sure about that, we had a whole discussion about how old eighteen was and how far away it was to the little girl she was back then”