My hands were shaking. I put the box between us.
Can you explain this to me?
He looked inside. His face paled. Then the tears started.
My hands were shaking.
“Dad, you shouldn’t have heard like that.”
“Find out what, Lily? Because you seem to have been meeting a man behind my back. Looks like you've been hiding money. You seem to have been planning to leave.”
“I had no plans to leave. I would never do that!”
“Then why the secret account? Why the man in the suit? Why the briefcase you put under the counter last week when I walked in?”
“Find out what, Lily?”
My daughter contacted me. I attracted her back. It was not my intention. It just happened.
“Please listen to me,” he whispered.
“I’ve been listening all these years. And tonight, on your birthday, someone left it on our balcony. Someone who knew exactly what was inside.”
