MY HUSBAND PUSHED ME OFF AN ICY CLIFF FOR $50 MILLION—THEN SMILED AT MY FUNERAL BESIDE HIS MISTRESS
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Chapter 17 - NOAH ASKED ABOUT HIS FATHER
At six, Noah asked:
“Where is my dad?”
Emma had prepared for years.
Still hard.
She did not say Michael died.
Did not invent travel.
“He is alive.”
“Where?”
“In prison.”
Noah stared.
“Why?”
“Because he hurt me before you were born.”
“Did he hurt me?”
Emma’s throat tightened.
“He put both of us in danger.”
Noah thought.
“Does he love me?”
Emma answered carefully.
“I don’t know what he feels.”
She would not use love to excuse danger.
Noah later asked Hayes:
“Are you my dad?”
Hayes laughed.
“No. I’m your grandpa.”
“Same thing but older?”
“Much older.”
Emma laughed.
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The family could survive hard truth without turning every moment solemn.
That mattered.
