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

and my

be a part of our

hope

ground. “But I

I

comfort her. I

He was good with Elva. He was honest and

I remembered our days together.

but

and his

we would always make up before we went

my cheek with his thumb 1 can’t sleep knowing you are

unhappy”

my image of that caring man into a future where we would

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goodnight and come to me We’d hold each other through the night, just as we had done in the past, when one of us or the other snuck

he was it haunted me

the present There, I chastised myself for thinking of Nicholas

for good reasons, too

be together. And for

I

have never pursued him then either Our hearts had been so close,

the

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