Dark Hearts (Light in the Dark 3) - Page 142
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“We’re going to find your son.”
Jace’s words have echoed in my head non-stop for the last couple of days.
A constant loop as I go to work and the bar.
“We’re going to find your son.”
For four years, I resolved myself to the fact that I’d never know him. Never see him. Never hear his voice.
Never, never, never.
Never has now become maybe.
I think maybe is the dirtiest temptress to ever exist.
Maybe just hangs there, waiting.
Something could happen, or it could not.
I don’t know what the future holds.
Maybe has given me a hope I didn’t have before.
I lock up the record store and bundle my coat around my body. It’s late and snow flurries begin to fall from the cloudy sky.
I head over to W.T.F. and find Jace manning the bar. The place is packed but I manage to find a stool.
“Hungry?” he asks in passing, setting a drink down.
“Starving. I skipped lunch.”
He gives me a look that tells me exactly what he thinks about me skipping lunch.
“What do you want?” he asks.
“Um … cheese fries and a B.L.T..”
“Coming right up.” He spins around to enter my order into the computer.
He’s busy bartending so we don’t have much time to talk. It isn’t long until my meal is ready and he brings me my food.
“Have you talked to your dad?” I ask.
He shakes his head. “He keeps calling, wanting to meet up and apologize, but … I mean, so much damage is done and him looking into your past …” Jace shakes his head. “Unforgivable.”
“If he hadn’t done that we wouldn’t have the birth parents’ name.”
Jace raises a finger. “Don’t defend him.”
I raise my hands innocently. “I’m not. You know how I feel about my parents. I’m just saying. Maybe … maybe you owe it to yourself to speak with him one last time. There might be a missing piece. You never know.”
Jace looks doubtful. “I don’t know.”
“Just think about it.”
I know from what Jace has told me that his dad wasn’t a good man while he was growing up, but the way I see it, people aren’t born evil, they’re made, and there has to be more to his father than meets the eye. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the guy, and probably never will. He was rude at that stupid Thanksgiving gala thing, and snooping into my past was the final peg. But I feel like it’s important for Jace to have … closure, some sort of understanding, I guess. He doesn’t have a mom. All he has left is his dad, no matter how awful he is.
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