Broken Sunshine: A heartbreaking and emotional second chance story (The Heart Series Book 2) by Shari J. Ryan

Author:Shari J. Ryan [Ryan, Shari J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-17T18:30:00+00:00

FIFTEEN

I FEEL THE appropriate thing to do is let Tori yell at me at the top of her lungs for however long she finds it necessary. I peer down at my watch, noting it has been four hours since we stepped into our house and two hours since she started yelling at me. Besides a few pausing breaths and a brief break so I could put Gavin to bed, there hasn’t been a lack of words for her to hand me the piece of her mind I deserve.

She hasn’t allowed me the chance to get in a word and if she did, I would only tell her that we agreed to keep our past in the past, and we never had a conversation about breaking that commitment.

I was beginning to think she wouldn’t stop, but she has finally dropped down into a seat at the kitchen table. It’s now six at night and I never even got to work today. I haven’t had a moment to digest the fact that my daughter has stepped back into my life, or that my high school sweetheart, her mother, showed up out of the blue today. I haven’t had a chance to tell Tori I’m not sorry, but I don’t think it would be wise to tell her that right now.

I left Cammy and Ever at the pizza shop without a promise to follow up, or any word for that matter. I don’t have Cammy’s phone number, and I realize now that beyond showing up at her hotel room, I have no way to find them again. Not that I’d be allowed to leave this house long enough to do something like that right this second anyway.

Tori’s been quiet for a long three minutes, and she’s staring through the tiled floor as if it were glass. I’m not sure if I should wait to hear her next thought or if this is the time to speak up.

I walk over to the countertop and rest my hip against it. “I never thought I’d see either of them again,” I tell her. She doesn’t respond, so I continue. “Those two made me who I am today, love me or leave me, and I just left them in the middle of a goddamn pizza shop because my wife and I, who know nothing about each other, needed to come home and have this fight. How normal is that, Tori? Oh, and just to make things worse, it’s my daughter’s birthday today—the first one I was going to be able to celebrate with her since the day she was born. This, though, this is way more important.”

“They made you who you are?” she asks, narrowing her eyes at me. Of course, that would be the only part she heard.

“Yeah, Tori, that’s not something you’re going to hold against me. And you want to know why?”

She stands up from her seat for the first time in hours, and my nerves cringe with the thought of what she might be doing.

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