Righting Our Closeness

"Why didn’t you attend that meeting yesterday, Kieran?” Kieran heard his uncle asking him. He was conversing with his uncle on a call, outside the ward where inside she was with her mother.

“You knew how important that was for our work and business,” he could clearly sense that disappointment which was laced in his uncle’s words and tone.

“I was with Ella and her mother,” he uttered, truthfully because his uncle knew about what Ariella meant to him. Besides, he had never felt that necessity of hiding how much she meant to him from anyone and under any circumstances. Kieran heard his uncle sighing on the other side in return at his words.

“You have Josh for that work. You could have told him to stay with her in your absence because for that meeting we didn’t have your replacement and you were aware of that thing really very clearly,” his uncle’s words were straight and curt. Kieran knew he should have attended that meeting as his uncle had handed their entire business to him and that m