My Dad’s Business Partner
Hot tears slipped free.
Mom smoothed my hair. "It's okay, baby. You can cry—holding it in only makes it worse."
"I don't want to," I lied, and a sob escaped anyway.
Dad held me tighter and let me cry without questions, his silence a kind of shelter. Still, a thought flickered through me — if Ryatt ever crossed him, even in a nightmare, he'd be dead meat.
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It was weird that I still liked watching Cinderella. Even weirder that Dad still enjoyed it with me.