CHAPTER 34

ELODIE

“You have a father?!” I demanded, feeling like he had punched me in the face. How could he have a father, and I know nothing about it? Now I feel like all this time I claimed to know everything about him, I’ve just been lying to myself.

“I am so sorry,” I mumbled, seeing that I had freaked out before him. “I didn’t mean to ask about your father like that. It’s just that it took me by surprise. I never knew your father was still–”

“Alive?” he questioned, cutting me off.

“I didn’t mean it that way!” I tried to defend myself.

I didn’t want to get him mad for thinking that his father was dead when the man was still alive.

“He is dead, Ducky,” Tedros murmured in a low tone.

I breathed a sigh of relief. “I was right all along, so he is dead.”

A smirk curled up his lips. “He is dead to us, not dead.” He revealed, shattering all the relief I felt. “How long have you thought that my father was dead?”

I peered at him, reading his expression. He wasn’t mad nor was he surprised. He just ha