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There’s no doubt that she’d feel as ashamed as I do of him.
“This is the truth.” Jericho puts his phone away and stares at my father. “For as long as I’ve been in your life I have respected you because of your daughter. You and I had more in common than what you thought, but all you could see of me I that I’m a Grayson. This is where I draw the line.”
Dad says nothing. All he does is stare at Jericho.
Jericho walks toward me and I lift my head to gaze up at him.
“I still hurt you. I’m still to blame for my part in this, so take whatever time you need to hate me, but I meant what I said, I have no intention of letting you go.” His words of determination sends a clamoring shiver through my body. “I won’t stop fighting or trying until you love me again.”
With that promise he steps back, turns and leaves.
I stare at the empty space he left behind for a few moments too long as if I can summon him back so I can answer, but I can’t speak.
Shock has suffused my being and I can’t wrap my head around what happened.
After what feels like an eternity I look at my father and I feel like I never knew him.
He meets my gaze with tears in his eyes and a forlorn expression ingrained in his face.
“Why?” My whisper-soft voice is barely audible over the drumming of my heart. “Why did you do this, Dad?”
He swallows hard and sniffles. “I was always a failure in life. Tobias Grayson had everything. He had everything, River.”
“Dad. You did this to yourself.Youdid this. Tobias Grayson doesn’t even remember who you are.”
He hangs his head down because he knows I’m right.
Chapter34
River
Dad turned himself in at the police station two days ago. That was probably the most honorable thing he’s ever done in his life.
He handed himself in the morning after Jericho came by. Dad called me from the police station and told me.
After the truth was revealed I couldn’t stay with him. I could barely look at him much less speak to him so I went to Gina’s.
She’s aware of what’s happened—all of it.
As much as I would have loved to shield her from the harsh truths that were exposed, it was one of those things that couldn’t be kept from her.
The police have reopened the case and are investigating but there isn’t much to investigate with the truth available to see in that missing surveillance.
Rory has also been exonerated. There was something on the news about it this morning. I didn’t watch too much because I couldn’t handle it. I’ve been staying away from the news but I’m sure once things are out in the open and people realize whose daughter I am and whose wife Istillam, the press will be hounding me.
I’ve pushed it all to the back of my mind so I can take one day at a time.
The only thing that hasn’t happened is that I haven’t heard from Jericho.
I know he’s giving me my space and I appreciate that, but there have been moments where I’ve felt so distressed that I needed him.
I could have called him but honestly, I’m embarrassed by what’s happened and deeply distressed.
There are too many things to worry about all at once and I don’t know what to focus on.
This new revelation about Dad and the past is tearing me up but the whole Sasha thing is another story.
When it came to Sasha, Dad sounded like the classic deluded person trying to find every excuse in the book to paint a bad person in a good light. I don’t know when I’ll be able to speak to my father again, and worse, I don’t know when Sasha is going to be out. From those email’s Jericho showed me it seemed like it was soon.
