The Girl Made of Clay by Nicole Meier

Author:Nicole Meier [Meier, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503904637
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

SARA

Sara wrapped a pair of trembling hands around the steering wheel and tried not to hyperventilate. Hot tears of rejection streamed down her cheeks as she drove back to the hospital, clouding her vision, but she didn’t bother wiping them away.

How could TR keep something so big from her? There was another woman and a son. Living with him. Existing this whole time just hours from Sara’s world. And yet they’d been hidden. Sara had been ignorantly caregiving for TR as if he had no other options. They’d spent hours alone, she and her father. There’d been so many quiet times when confessions could have been made. When they should have been made. She’d started each morning by intimately tending to his wounds, for God’s sake.

And TR chose to cruelly withhold the truth.

Another child existed. In place of her. Had TR been a great and present father for this Bo person? Had he held this boy in his arms and invited him to be his muse? Had he been there, steadfast during the difficult adolescent years, offering the guidance and consoling she so desperately could have used but never received? The very image sickened her.

Accompanying her anguish was the intensifying wrath that came from being duped. Despite all of Sara’s reservations, she’d brought TR into her life anyway. He had been invited into her home, and yet he’d violated her trust. He’d been absent from Sara’s life not because he was too proud to admit his mistakes and return, but because he’d been playing house with a new family. Her sorrow and fury were almost crippling.

There was a whole bevy of reasons to be livid with TR, deceit being high up on the list. But she was also furious with herself.

She’d been such a fool. For beginning to soften toward her father, for trusting him, and for never considering he might have another family.

Cranking the radio dial to “Off,” she navigated through pelting rain. The day had morphed into a depressing shade of gloom, with dense coastal fog and heavy precipitation assaulting the tiny town. It was as if the onslaught of dreadful weather were somehow trying to run her out of town.

She squinted at the road ahead. A slick layer of rain flooded the pavement, causing her to grip the wheel even tighter for fear of hydroplaning. The last thing Sara wanted to do was lose control. But she feared that had pretty much happened anyway.

What she would do when she got to TR, she wasn’t quite sure. Tossing him out of her life came to mind.

So far, Sara had uncovered far too many questions and not enough answers.

What on earth had TR been thinking? That he’d get away with so much deception? He was back in his hometown for the day, just minutes from where people were evidently awaiting his return, and he’d chosen to say nothing. He’d let Sara believe that without her, he was utterly alone. That he had nowhere to turn, nobody to help out in his hour of need.

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