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Not about that.
But the irreparable damage she’d caused? I couldn’t stop my disappointment.
Because whether she meant to or not, she’d changed our course.
“You’re getting back together.” Penelope clapped her hands. Maybe not . . . quite so mature. “And I’ll finally have a sister.”
CHAPTERELEVEN
JOJO
I should’ve known.
I should’ve known Penelope would not only be happy about discovering her father, but that she’dwantKane and me to be together.
Did all children, no matter their age, want their parents to be in a relationship?
Honestly, I didn’t know.
If my father could’ve found a woman who deserved him, who made him happy, I think I would’ve championed the relationship. But I was clouded by a mix of dislike and love toward my mother.
I saw her for what she was . . . and maybe I didn’t. But part of me loved her because she was my mother. I hadn’t been able to turn that off.
I was glad Penelope seemed to be taking the news of her father so well.
Even though Kane could rile me like no one else, as we sat through breakfast, I realized I wanted her to have the relationship she desired with him.
And I wanted him to have a relationship with her.
Which meant I had to find a way to deal with whatever I felt toward Kane. Because something had shifted between us.
We’d taken a hundred steps back from where we’d been the night before.
I understood the responsibility I bore for that. But my emotions were in too much of a jumbled knot to figure out where we went from this point.
I’d been drawn up tightly as I tried to eat, just waiting for him to drop the bomb that I wasn’t Penelope’s biological mother.
In true Kane fashion, he surprised me by not mentioning Alma at all.
And he’d eaten every morsel of the açai bowl, mostly without grumbling.
To please Penelope.
He already had fatherly instincts.
Yet another surprise.
I’d seen Kane from one angle for so long, it was difficult to adjust to this new view. I was the one who hadn’t been fair to him, even if I’d unknowingly done so.
It was going to be hard, but I had to be open-minded. I had to give him a chance. He and Penelope deserved to develop their relationship without my tainted point of view.
“I’m going to get dressed. Then maybe we could take a walk on the beach, Kane?” Penelope pushed out of her chair and picked up her empty bowl.
He nodded. “I’d like that.”
I touched her arm. “I’ll do the dishes.”
She floated from the room like we’d done this a million times. Like we’d been a family all along.
