Some adventures are even better when you take your favorite people with you.
You’re my favorite people.
Fuck.
And the truth finally rattles through my dumb, idiotic brain?—
The only way to know sometimes is to do the thing you’re most scared of.
I pushed her away and she still came back. She tried to talk to me, tried to explain. And I?—
Fuck.
She wasn’t going to leave us behind. She wanted uswithher.
She was so fucking brave.
And I was too scared to grasp the hand she held out.
I close my eyes.
“Daddy?” Chloe asks. “Are you okay?”
“Yeah.” I peel back my lids to look at her, my vision blurry from my tears. “I just…made a big mistake, sweetheart.”
She nods solemnly. “I know.”
I laugh again, hug her close. “I know you know.”
“Because you were scared?”
“Yeah.”
“Are you going to be brave now?”
Am I?
“Yes.” I pull in a long breath then smooth back her hair. “Would you be okay staying with Brooke by yourself for a few days?”
Chloe frowns. “Why?”
“Because I need to go talk to Finn.”
“About what?”
I don’t even try to hide the truth from her.
I can’t afford to.
“I need to tell her I love her.”
Her eyes go huge. “Really?”
“Yeah.” My throat works. “And I want to see if she’ll come home and be part of our family.”
Chloe watches me for one beat.
Then two.
