Never Say Goodbye by Sakwa Kim

Author:Sakwa, Kim
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733617253
Publisher: Taggart Press
Published: 2020-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

Five minutes earlier

“Callie, come on, sweetie,” Amanda called. It was well past lunchtime and she needed to get Zander home. It was unusually warm for this time of year, so they’d stayed out longer than normal. She’d just turned the corner onto Michigan Avenue when a storefront caught her daughter’s attention and she had indulgently waved her toward it, grateful for a moment of pause, anyway. A minute or so later, Callie turned from the window she’d been peering in and grinned. Amanda’s heart melted. She held out her hand and waited until Callie grabbed it. Something about being in Chicago, just the two of them—well, Zander and Stan aside—was so freeing. It helped ground her anger and the uncertainty she’d been feeling about so many things. Like who in the hell Alexander Montgomery was and where in the heck had she met him. Why was he gone from their lives for the entirety of her pregnancy—which she also didn’t remember—and now back again? The only thing she was sure of right now was that being away from home was the best move she’d made.

Of the many calls she’d received, there was only one she’d accepted. Evan’s. She had no beef with him and honestly, she liked him. He was professional and kind and he only wanted to help her and to ease her memory’s return in, if at all possible, a constructive way. And now more than ever that was something she wanted too.

“Are we going home today?” Callie asked.

Amanda smiled down at her and started pushing the stroller again. Callie had overheard the conversation she’d had with Stan last night. Al—Mr. Montgomery, she’d decided to go back to formalities—had apparently told him to wrap things up and bring her and the children home. To California. By lunchtime, which was…hours ago. She smiled inwardly. Heck, she grinned outwardly. It felt good to fight back. “No, sweetie.” Jeez, she actually had a spring in her step. “We’re staying until Sunday, just like I said.”

Callie giggled and covered her mouth with her hands before she told her, “He’s gonna come, Mama.”

“So you keep reminding me.” Amanda thought she’d said it under her breath, but when Callie pulled an overly exasperated face, she realized her daughter had heard her. With a sigh she knelt and held Callie’s shoulders. “I know you miss your papa, Callie.” Oddly, Amanda felt like she had missed him too. She didn’t remember him, at least not before he brought her home from the hospital, but some part of her thought she really had missed him. It was also surprising how easy it had been to slip into calling him her “papa,” though she hadn’t yet settled on “husband” for herself. “Do you remember what I told you? Think really hard, it’s super important.”

Callie pursed her lips, a determined look crossing her face. It wasn’t much longer before she said, “You said no one would ever take me away from you.”

Jeez, out of the mouths of babes—that was not what she was referring to, and in fact Amanda had no recollection of saying that to Callie.

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