24: The What If's

Lucas eyed his eldest daughter silently, wondering if she was ready to hear the truth. Her unwavering gaze on him made him it was about time they faced their dysfunctional relationship if there has to be a better future for them. “You are the only one who lost her,” He croaked, rubbing the bridge of his nose. Isabella swallowed hard. Was he really going there?

“I am not the one who remarried barely a year after her death.” she spat bitterly. Lucas had expected her to touch on the subject, but now that she had, he didn't know what to tell her. “And to her supposed friend no less,” Isabella added quietly, referring to Edith, her stepmother and tripled her father's guilt. What excuse could he give that would be justifiable? He knew marrying too soon had caused his daughter to view him in a different light. How can he explain that it was a consequence of a drunken night of sorrow that left a woman pregnant, and he had no other option than to marry her? Will she understand he did it for hi