Suddenly by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky [Delinsky, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780062104533
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1994-01-05T06:00:00+00:00

So what happened? I saw you for a day here and there, and a week once a year with my folks.

If I were to do it again, I’d do it differently. I’d fight to see you more. You’d have my name. I wouldn’t be so damned deferential to Liv.”

He caught himself before he said more on that score. He had sworn not to bad-mouth Liv, though he held her at fault for the breakup of their marriage. Tempering his voice, he said, “Those years are done, Sara.

I can’t force you to like me, but I’m sure as hell gonna try.”

Her shoulders hunched. It was a minute before he realized she was crying. He crossed the floor and took her in his arms. UAhhhh, baby.

Don’t cry. We’ll work things out. I promise.”

She cried quietly. While she didn’t wrap her arms around him, she didn’t pull away, and suddenly the years disappeared. She was a toddler again, crying over a fall, and he was comforting the little girl he adored. “I know it’s hard. Your life’s been turned upside down in the past few months. It’s natural that you’re feeling unsettled. That’s why it’s so important for us to try with each other.”

“I didn’t think you wanted me around,” she hiccoughed.

“This weekend?”

“All those years.”

“Are you kidding?” he asked. “You saw the pictures I kept on the mantel. I couldn’t pry many out of your mother, but whenever we were together I snapped away. You hated it when I did thatţyou always tried to turn away, remember?ţbut I hued through those pictures at times.”

“You never came.”

“I thought I was doing you a favor, minimizing the confusion about who your father was, but there’s another side to that, Sara.

You never asked me to come. When I’d be leaving you off at Liv’s, you never asked when you’d see me again. I was never told about things like dance recitals, even though your mother had pictures of those all over her mantel, and when you started runningţwhich was my thing, you knew that because you’d seen me running when we stayed with my folksţyou never said a word.”

“I didn’t think you’d want to know.”

“Well, I did. I thought about you all the time. I never let a birthday go by without a visit or a call, certainly never without a present. There were cards for every other kind of holiday, and I didn’t just sign them love, Dad,’ I always wrote something that I thought would be meaningful, either about what the card meant or what I was doing with my life or what I thought you might be doing with yours.”

He smoothed aside a swath of long hair that was just the color as his.

“I cared, Sara. I cared all those years, and I care now.”

“But you hate it here. You only took the job because you needed somewhere to put me. At the end of the year, you’ll be gone, and I’ll be stuck here alone for two more years.”

“If you stay, I stay She grew still.

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