Chapter 2
I swayed, my legs weak. If I hadn’t grabbed the table, I would have collapsed.
“Apologize,” he said, his eyes cold. “Your father wouldn’t apologize, so you will”
Why should I apologize to the woman who’d indirectly killed my father?
Had Gralin forgotten what my dad had done for him?
Five years ago, Dad had seen someone throwing things from a high–rise window. Gralin had been standing below. Without hesitation, Dad had pushed him out of the way.
Gralin had been saved, but Dad had been struck by a falling chair. He’d been rushed to the hospital, but he’d slipped into a coma. When he finally woke up, his mind was gone. He was like a child trapped in a man’s body.
Gralin had been overwhelmed with guilt and gratitude. He’d paid for Dad’s medical bills, helped me take care of him.
“I’m so sorry, Isata,” he’d repeated over and over.
I knew it wasn’t his fault, but I couldn’t help but resent him.
Gralin had money old money, like Zoe’s family. He’d taken Dad to his family’s estate, hired nurses, even cared for him personally.
One day, he’d confessed his feelings. “Isata, I’m in love with you. Be with me.”
After six months of watching him care for my father, my heart had softened.
“Okay,” I’d whispered.
For five years, Gralin had been a good boyfriend.
But then Harlynn, his new secretary, arrived.
Gralin was smitten. He couldn’t stop talking about her – how ditzy she was, how much trouble she caused. He didn’t even realize that when he complained about her, his eyes lit
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I kept quiet. He was taking care of Dad, providing for us. What right did I have to complain?
But now, because of Harlynn, he’d left my father to die in the wilderness,
I couldn’t take it anymore.
hould have been Gralin who’d been left with a child’s mind,
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