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“Her phone is ringing off the hook,” I said.
“What do you mean?”
“Andrew called her. Your dad did. They didn’t elaborate, just said it didn’t go well.”
“Guess that’s a trend too.” He picked at his label. “I probably shouldn’t have called in the middle of the night, but after what she brought on all of us, she owed me.”
“She told you how to find your mother.”
“Not on the phone. But a little bit later, she texted me an address. The right one.”
“Did you go over there right away?”
He grabbed my foot and massaged. “No. I waited until this afternoon.”
“She saw you?”
“Along with the man she claims is my father,” he said with disgust. “I didn’t even go inside. Said what I needed to say and got out of there.”
“You’re not going to elaborate?”
He rested his beer on my shin. “I told her leaving us with my father was the best thing she could have ever done. Then I told her to stay away from us.”
“What did they say?” I leaned closer as he kneaded my foot.
“Not a damn thing. Both of them looked at me like they’d never seen me before. It was very anti-climactic.”
“But you feel better.”
“It feels good to finally know what I want from her.”
“Which is?”
“Nothing. Absolutely nothing.”
I sipped my wine. “What about that man?”
He sighed. “I want nothing to do with him. Even if it turns out he is my biological father.”
“Are you going to find out for sure?”
“Do you think I should?”
I fought an inappropriate smile. He cared what I thought. Holt had no idea how much that meant to me.
“This isn’t going to help, but that’s a decision you need to make.”
“What would you do?”
I took a minute to consider. “I think the curious part of me would want to know. That way I could move on. But I’d be worried about what it would do to your dad.”
“He said he’d support me no matter what. About the test, I mean.”
“Whether you have a DNA test or not, it won’t change how you feel about him.”
“He says the same. I’m afraid it would, even if we don’t mean for it to.”
“Think on it then. Talk to him about it. He’s pretty wise, and I think it would mean a lot to him if you confided in him.”
