“I know.”
I glared at him.
He stopped himself.
“No,” he said. “You did not.”
He had raised Eric without warmth.
I opened Nathan’s letter that night.
He admitted he had failed us differently.
I Pretended to Be the Daughter of an Elderly Man I Met by Chance – Days Later, His Lawyer Found Me and Said, ‘You Walked Straight Into His Trap’
He had abandoned me.
He had raised Eric without warmth.
He said he arranged our meeting because he wanted to know whether I could love him before I knew what he had done.
He had asked whether he was convincing.
His regret had become another demand.
Then I reached the final page.
He had asked whether he was convincing.
The answer made me sick.
He had not been pretending to be my father.
I called Eric the next morning.
He had been pretending not to be.
Nathan wrote that he hoped Eric and I might give each other what he had denied us.
I called Eric the next morning.
“We are not required to become family because he wanted a clean ending.”
