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“Work gave me some extended leave.” His lips curl into a sneer. “I’m taking her away. Who knows if or when we’ll come back.”
“Good. I’m glad you’re packed. It’ll make you leaving faster.”
He studies my face and my smirk. Then his façade begins to crack.
“I’m not going alone. Soph’s coming with me.”
My silence only seems to rile him, because he shoves me off him. I let him because I have him exactly where I want him now.
Packed and ready to fuck off.
“Soph’s packing now,” he repeats.
“You already said that.”
He scowls at my flippant tone.
“She chose me. She kissed me.”
My jaw hardens immediately as my eyes bore into his.
“She held onto my collar and pulled me to her. Desperate for me to kiss her.” He smirks as I grind my teeth and my pulse thunders in my temple.
“Enough with the constant lies, Hank,” Mum snaps.
It takes everything I have in me not to quench the thirst for his blood beneath my fist. I hold his eyes and sickness slithers through me like a virus until it’s clawing at my throat.
He’s not lying.
Not this time.
Sophie kissed him.
“She doesn’t want you anymore,” he says without a hint of empathy. “Time to move on.”
“I’m not moving anywhere,” I growl, ignoring the gnawing jealousy in my gut.
“We’ll let you know when that babies arrive. Send you a photo if you like.”
“Dad, stop,” Maddy begs.
“It’s okay, Sis.” I pull out my phone and hold it up in the air, turning the screen so my father can read it.
His pupils blow wide. Then his brows flatten, and he reads it again.
“What’s that even mean?” His lips flap as he scans my face and then looks at my phone again. Back and forth, over and over. It’s almost comical.
“It means, I’ll handle it from here,” I say with a calm confidence.
“You’ll handle it?” he splutters.
“Sophie and I will,” I confirm.
The flicker of doubt in his eyes sets a rush of fireworks exploding in my chest. A mass celebration, all set off by one simple word in the text message I received a few minutes ago.
One word with infinite meaning and possibility.
The word I’ve been waiting to hear for days.
