16Gérard Le Blanc had never cared about having children or being a father, and he still didn’t. But he hated being bettered by a woman. Or women. And since he’d discovered his daughter was being cared for by his wife — okay, his ex-wife — he’d been in volcanic turmoil, and he couldn’t figure out why. He’d known Francine had a baby. He’d vaguely heard she’d died. And he’d never done anything about it. He’d been indifferent to the whole episode.
But now he couldn’t bear the thought that other people knew his daughter better than he did. Knew her and knew about her. And him? He didn’t know a damn thing.
So what if that wasn’t logical. He had a thunderstorm banging around in his head and it was all Madeleine’s fault. If she’d come with him to California all those years ago, he’d never have n
