Daddy’s Game
To practice her writing, Emma often recorded the events around her in essay form, scribbling them on paper sometimes throwing them away immediately afterward.
Exposed so bluntly, Emma’s face burned with embarrassment. If she had known he could read French, she would have snatched the paper back the moment he picked it up.
“So, in your eyes, sweetheart, I’m nothing but a bastard. Is that what you think too?” Damien asked casually, as if the ‘bastard’ in the article wasn’t him at all.
Emma pressed her lips tightly together, lowering her head without answering. What could be more humiliating than speaking ill of someone behind their back and then being exposed by that very person? But what she