What A Mess
Finally, he sent a text message.
Eric: [Hazel, I'm sorry. Will you come back?]
I did not reply.
Some mistakes could not be fixed with just an apology.
The pain of twenty years of neglect, the trauma of the birthday party fire, and the betrayal by my father to satisfy his illegitimate daughter's desires were memories that had deeply scarred me, impossible to erase with just an apology.
I erased the text message, set my phone aside, and shifted my gaze towards the living room.
Andre was sitting on the carpet, with my son on his lap, earnestly telling him a story. "Then the big bad wolf howled and fell off the bridge!"
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