Chapter 9.
Keira’s POV.
I felt his presence behind me as I walked out of the hospital building but I refrained from turning around.
“Keira. Please wait,” he called out eventually and I hesitantly slowed down to a halt.
My father came around me and stood for a while, swallowing uncertainly as he looked into my eyes. He opened his mouth a couple of times to speak but he looked like he was having a hard time forming the words.
I hope you forever regret selling me off, I thought to myself as I looked at him. I fought the urge to cry before him. How did a man I’d loved my whole life offer me in exchange for money? And to think he’d lied to me about my birth mother as well. I shook my head and broke our eye contact.
“Keira,” he began. “I’m sorry things had to go like this. I’d never do an
