He had left. He had abandoned them without any explanation. Did family do that? Did that mean he had, in some way, broken the bonds of their family, splintered them beyond her ability to soothe them again into the old love, or something like it?
Maybe she just wasn't a good enough person to forgive him.
That thought makes her breath come shorter. The tears spill more properly over her cheeks, head twisting so her face can be pressed hard against his shoulder.
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He had left. He had abandoned them without any explanation. Did family do that? Did that mean he had, in some way, broken the bonds of their family, splintered them beyond her ability to soothe them again into the old love, or something like it?
Maybe she just wasn't a good enough person to forgive him.
That thought makes her breath come shorter. The tears spill more properly over her cheeks, head twisting so her face can be pressed hard against his shoulder.