Riley POV
“Do you still love Daddy too?”
Sophie’s question filled the small laundry room.
I held her close, but my body had become completely still.
Behind the door, the floorboard creaked again.
Luca was standing there.
Listening.
I knew it before he opened the door.
I could feel his presence on the other side, quiet and careful, as though he understood he had entered a moment that did not belong to him but could not force himself to walk away.
Sophie lifted her face from my shoulder.
Her eyes remained fixed on mine.
“Well?”
I looked at her small, serious expression and searched for an answer that would not lie to her or expose emotions she was too young to carry.
There was no perfect answer.
“I care about your father very much.”
“That is not what I asked.”
Of course it wa
