Chapter Sixteen

Rachel looked from Rob to Taylor and shook her head in disbelief. “I should have known that you two would support that bum. I thought the guy code didn’t extend to gay men?”

“This isn’t about guy code, Rachel. This is about Zoe,” said Rob. “I don’t want whatever is going on with you and Derek to affect her negatively. And I don’t want you to look back on this time in the future and regret your decision to cut Derek off. Besides, I feel that he will keep showing up wherever you go until you let him apologize and say his piece. You know he has the resources to track you down even if you move to the end of the earth, wherever that may be, so why don’t you just hear him out and give him a piece of your mind too while he’s at it?”

As much as she hated Rob’s advice, she couldn’t deny that her brother was right. Zoe deserves to have her father in her life if he is willing to be involved, which it seems like Derek is. She on the other hand didn’t have to entertain him in her life because he d