Chapter 0122

For a moment, I sat there in shock, looking at Elva and her wide, earnest eyes.

Nicholas wasn’t exactly the last person I thought she’d say. He had been visiting her a lot lately, he always seemed to make time for her. But I would have thought Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny would

have taken higher priority for a three year old

My face burned hot at the implication that Nicholas would well, we would have to be married for

Nicholas to be Elva’s father, wouldn’t we?

I cleared my throat. “Um, Elva, honey Nicholas can’t be your dad

Elva tilted her head. “Why not?”

“Someday he’s going to have his own family to take care of His own wife, and his own kids. He won’t

have time to spend with you and me

Elva’s shoulders slumped “Why?”

“We won’t be living here anymore then, and he’d have to travel away from them to see us. You wouldn’t

want him to make his family sad, just so he’d come to see us?

“But I’ll be sad

fell and my heart ached.

part of our family, Elva And he’ll be the

hope for

looked down to the ground. “But

I

wished there was more I could say to comfort her. I understood her attachment to Nicholas

maybe. He was good with Elva. He

I remembered our days together.

strong willed with the rest of the world, but

time and

we would always

he had whispered as he caressed my cheek with his thumb

unhappy”

caring man into a future where we

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We’d hold each other through the night, just as we had done in

how warm he was it haunted

myself back into the present There, I chastised myself for

good

we would never be together. And for good reasons,

I

would have never pursued him then either Our

on the

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