Jane felt tears spring to her eyes, and she started to speak, but her father said, “Let me finish. I…don’t remember a lot of what I did when I was drinking, but I know I said and did a lot of things that I shouldn’t have, and wouldn’t have if I’d been sober.”
Jane inadvertently reached up to touch the place where her bangs had been. Her father looked away and, after a moment, continued, “When I’ve…apologized to other people, especially your mother, I can’t…there are never the right words to say how sorry I am…and now…with you…I can’t even imagine how much I must have hurt you, and I have no excuse for it.”
Jane forced herself to sit quietly, even though the tears were running down her face.
Her father turned back to her and said, “I can’t say that I’ll make it up to you, because I don’t think there’s any way I can. But I hope…maybe you can believe that I really do love you. Indian porn Chapter Fourteen
“I’m home…anybody here?”
The voice from downstairs startled her awake. She didn’t remember drifting off, but she must have. And Peter must have as well, because his eyes were wide with dismay when hers snapped open in the twilit room.
“Oh god, it’s my Dad,” she whispered.
She jumped out of bed and ran to the bedroom door.
