Chapter 22
Sunday, October 12, 2014
9:30 a.m.
“Daddy!” Victoria, a beautiful girl, with abundant dark-hair and a face that Hannah could bet was all Markus’s when he was a kid, squealed and skidded into the hall with her arms opened.
“Hey, you.” Markus’s face opened in a huge smile as he picked up the girl in his arms, burying his face in her dark hair and hugging her to him. I missed you, little one. “How is my princess?”
Victoria threw her arms around his neck. “Mom said you’ve been too busy to come see me. I missed you, Daddy.”
What? b***h. Anger rushed through his veins at Nicola’s sordidness. “Daddy was not—”
As Markus’s whole body tensed, Hannah, who had been quietly waiting for him to introduce her to his daughter, put a hand on his arm and cut in, “Your father was not exactly
