e just as her father’s vicious s
ked up in jail because of it. Our entire family was shamed because of you. You don’t have a future
then you destroyed it all. We had so much respect from
However, her almond-shaped eyes looked misty. The light of the candle and the light of the
ink lips. She was not at all bad-looking, bu
ancée, had been a rare beauty. To Ja
He understood her to need to say some kind words and to acknowledge her Grandpa’s pa**ing, but fresh o
she said softly. She then turned her head and looked at him. She smi
joy. After a moment, she turned to look at the man in the photo ag
She closed her eyes and though her lips moved, whatever
opened her eyes. “Alright, I’ll clean up an
e respond
ands and set out plates and utensils before sitting at t
n’t hum and there was no sound in the room, there was a rh
and a plate of some egg frittata she’d mixed up wit
led del
brought back and rather than eat them out of
hat. She’d been the on
He should be the one th
few minutes she asked, “Jay, what k
e was work to do, then I would do it. If there wasn’
d it, he a**umed she was thinking of how she came upon him—wandering th
are you?”
even,” he
said in surprise. “Which
vem
. She dabbed at her mouth with her napkin. “You don’t have any family, and neither do I. Why
anyone who had dared to be his family before, and
s, would she still da
ause she didn’t know that i
?” Her eye
said. “This was you
untertop in memory of her grandfather and mother. “When my mother pa**ed away, I was
at that age. And for a child grieving, the tra
id she
nly lived for ten minutes after entering this world. It would’ve been so wonderful, I think.
ed. So…
ant to be my sister
no
I have an actual job. I can’t even provide for m