sat beside her.
“She told me he used to hum whenever he was nervous.”
I laughed softly.
“Constantly.”
Mia smiled.
“Was he any good?”
“Terrible. He almost never hummed the right tune.”
She laughed.
And for one strange second, I saw Daniel in the crooked corner of her smile.
It hurt.
But differently than before.
Daniel had betrayed me.
That would always be true.
But he had also been Sophie’s father.
And without ever knowing it, he had been Mia’s father too.
Those truths were complicated.
Painful.
Messy.
But I
