MAX POV “Must have been hard on the kids, all of them.” I said. He nodded. “I thought they’d adapt, slowly, learn to get on. I thought we’d be alright.” “But it wasn’t alright?” He shook his head. “No, it wasn’t alright. Cloe hated me, hated the house, hated the kids. She didn’t want to come there, and used to cry to her mum that she wanted to stay at home, but I’d turn up anyway, try and make it work. Bull-headed, Max, I was bull-headed. When she got to thirteen she didn’t want to know me anymore, and when she got to sixteen she told me she’d had enough of the whole fucking lot of us. Wouldn’t take a penny from me, not for anything, didn’t want to know.” “You let it go?” “No,” he said. “Not really. Kept trying, kept pushing. It’s her mother, though, she’s so close to her mother. Wouldn’t even let me speak her name, still won’t now. She said I had no right to speak about her mother after what I’d done to her, no right to even think about her mother.” “And what about what Zara d
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