After My Father’s

chapel lights hummed.

“You knew, didn’t you?”

No answer came.

Only memory.

Dad at my wedding, dancing with me while Miles charmed guests nearby.

“You don’t have to earn love from a man who already promised it,” he had said.

I had laughed.

Thought he was being sentimental.

He had been warning me.

I wiped my face, stood, and went to work.

That day, I changed the continue reading …