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“You’re not going to take me to lunch or something?”
“You hate eating in public with me,” I said.
“I do, but there is a great place I was hoping we can could try,” he said.
“Sorry, but I’m a little tired. I have to get my rest,” I said.
“Yeah. Okay. Well, Petrosyan, you can walk me out,” he said.
I stood, and he did too.
“Good-bye, Daddy,” I said.
“Good-bye, Amy,” he said.
I knew that those words meant more than either of us were saying.
He knew it too, but it didn’t seem that he cared.
That should have hurt me.
I felt nothing.
Davit looked at me, his expression questioning, and after a moment, I nodded.
He led my father out of the hotel room door, and I drifted to the window, looking at the streets, feeling a sense of peace.
That had been it, the last thing that had been holding me to my old life.
But that tether was broken.
Whatever I had hoped for my father and me, that was over.
I didn’t know what was to come, but I knew what mattered in my life now.
Whomattered in my life now.
Davit came back a few minutes later, and I was still at the window.
He came to me without pause and wrapped his arms around my waist, settling his hands on my stomach.
I did something that I had only recently started to do, and let myself fall into that embrace.
Trusted his arms to hold me.
“I’m sorry that was so unpleasant,” he whispered.
“Don’t be. If nothing else, he’s consistent,” I said.
He gave me a humorless chuckle. “I guess,” he said. “Amethyst—”
I shook my head, then twisted to meet his eyes. “Don’t tell me. It doesn’t matter. He’s my father, and I will always love him for that, but whatever happens with him, with you, whatever he does, that’s not my concern anymore.”
I waited, and after a moment, he nodded.
“And what is your concern now?” he asked a moment later.
I leaned back against him, and put my hand on top of his.
“My family,” I whispered.
