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“And then he held my head.”
Kate’s face tightened. “Held it how?”
Daniel lifted one shoulder.
“Just—”
Daniel could remember the exact pressure better than he could remember whole hours around it.
“Through my hair. Held the back of my head,” Daniel murmured.
He could hear himself drifting away from testimony. The clean edges of fact had begun dissolving into sensation, each sentence pulling him a little farther from something he was reporting and a little closer to something he was sitting inside again.
“He said he was the quiet I’d been longing for.”
Alice’s hand twitched in her lap.
The frightening part was how badly, by then, Daniel wanted the quiet once it was offered.
“I like it,” Daniel said.
Alice’s fingers went still against his sleeve.
Daniel’s eyes remained lowered. “The quiet.”
Daniel Molloy has a perfectly reasonable explanation for every terrible decision he has ever made.
His daughters are less interested in the explanation than the part where he was their father.
Or: Daniel Molloy discovers being somebody’s good boy does not make him a good father.
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