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She’d been talking about fornatures “Dad insisted that all investe”
“So we’re to assume that all of these were done while he was here? He’d have scanned theinals” She was still looking at him oddly
And as she handed him the folder, leaned into him
He took the folder And kept his shoulder pressed against hers as he opened it “That’s what I’ot copies of transactions in the other files, open transactions, just like he does at hoinals”
“I can tell you every time he’s been here in the past fifteen years,” Missy said, looking in the rearviewtoward the ocean She’d changed into black jeans and a sequined sweater and put onquietly pretty about her
 
; He could see what his father ht have seen in her
He didn’t approve of any of it Not when he thought of how hard those last years of his mother’s life had been How hard she’d tried to be the wife his father had needed her to be, to make appearances and host dinners and always look her best, in spite of the pain she’d been in Or the lack of energy she’d had
“A list of those dates would be good to have, Missy, thank you,” Gabrielle said beside him, and Liam was ashamed for his bad manners “If you could just eed ee that afternoon
“I have the list, too,” Tan ot there and write me a note in it before he left I told hione”
Liah he’d been sucker punched His father had written in this child’s diary? To comfort her?
This child had craved their father’s presence while Liaone much of the time
“How often did you see him?” He asked a question that should have been first off his tongue
“Only a couple of times a month, a couple of days each time, when you were home But since you went away to school and lived on your own, it’s been more often,” Missy said
“More often since Talad to know