Chapter 45:Charlie

I didn't have any idea what he could possibly know that made him feel this sense of debt toward Sarah, but I had to imagine it had to do with her mama running off. It had changed the course of Sarah's teenage years and subsequently her life.

"Jack..." I shook my head, determined to refuse his offer.

"It's already been done, son. I'm just trying to give you the courtesy of tellin' you I did it."

"How?" It wasn't like I couldn't undo whatever magic he'd worked in the billing department.

The old man wasn't going to budge, that much was evident in his stern expression. Nor did he have any intention of sharing the details with me. "You're a new father." Jack wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know. "And I hope you never go through what I have. I don't want you to ever feel the hopelessness that I have, thinking that each time I walk out of a hospital room is the last time I'm going to see my daughter alive. It ain't a good place to be."

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