Forgotten Chance: Book Three (Forgotten Trilogy) by Virginia Wine

Author:Virginia Wine [Wine, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

I pulled the door open and stepped inside to a dimly lit room. Ahead of me Bryer was no more than a silhouette in the shadows sipping wine. I navigated my way towards her and as I approached, I could see the worry in her eyes, but I couldn’t imagine why.

As I studied her carefully her uncharacteristic behavior was cause for alarm, her hand trembled as she brought the wine to her lips.

I dropped onto the couch beside her feeling the walls moving in on me, the sense of the ground beneath my feet tilted. So, I readied myself like an anchor in the storm and found my strength.

“What is it?”

“You’re not going to believe it, I’m not sure I believe it myself.”

“Try me.”

My focus intensified, nervous anticipation seeped into my pores, climbed inside and twisted my gut. She starred back long and hard and I knew right then there was something in her tone that caused my spine to stiffen.

“The police were just here.”

“What?” I asked, shocked then reached for her. “Woah. Back up.

A sad smile crossed her mouth. “Um,” she said softly, “my father died.”

“Died?” My eyes widened as sweat broke out and slid down my back. “How?”

I wanted to shield her from the pain, keep her safe in my arms forever. I couldn’t fully comprehend the pain because their relationship was so complicated, her trust had been cut, broken and torn apart. Her face was drowning in sorrow yet not one single tear had fallen.

“He was shot.” She said and squeezed her eyes shut.

“Shot? Christ, so his death wasn’t natural causes? Was it an accident? Or…”

“I’m not sure.”

I didn’t know the entire story concerning her father, only that he left because he wasn’t strong enough to stick it out through her mother’s illness, and finally her death. But marriage, even fatherhood was not a temporary thing, it was a lifetime commitment. It required presence and hard work. If he tried to conjure up a justification for abandoning his family it would only depreciates the value of fatherhood.

“Oh baby, are you okay?”

“I don’t feel anything I just feel cold.”

“C’mere.”

Her expression closed up, paled so I wrapped my arms around her and spoke in her hair.

“We’ll get through this, together.” She gave a half shrug. “Say you believe me.”

She raised her chin and balled her fist in my shirt then glanced up, her eyes swam with tears.

“There’s a part of me that will always remember how it felt to be abandoned, clearly he had no idea what love was.”

My chest constricted, what kind of man was he? Millions of children grew up without their biological father and when I asked about him, I heard Bryer describe him as a dead-beat dad. The thought made the blood in my veins boil. A man like that was unworthy of parenthood. He left a long, tragic process of grief in his wake.

“The detective told me he’d be in touch.”

“Why is that?”

“Apparently, my father’s been keeping tabs on me, he found this in his wallet.

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