Alaric’s POV
After hanging up the phone, I kept my hand on it, almost like I wanted to pick it up again. But who would I call? Cara? She wouldn’t want to talk to me, not about anything other than the kids, anyway. And the kids themselves were at one of their after school activities.
Now that Mia felt better, she wanted to do everything. Try every sport, even gymnastics. There was nothing that could hold her back anymore.
I was so proud of her. She was like her mom, not afraid of anything.
I missed all of them. I’d spent some time with the kids fairly recently, though not as recently as I liked. As for Cara? Two months ago, I thought we were going to start a sort of routine and I would see her every weekend.
With her sending me away, that obviously didn’t amount to anything.
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