Chapter 37
Taj watched Kim move around the kitchen, going through the motions, making coffee and hot chocolate. Her face was deathly white. This wasn’t the time to tell her what he’d discovered about Ben Steele.
He sat with the children at the table. Jake quiet. Abbey weeping in a steady stream, as if it was now her normal way of being. Without thinking, he opened his arms. She moved into them, and buried her head in his shoulder. Poor child, she must be nearly out of tears.
‘Dusty loves you, little one. He wouldn’t want you to cry.’
‘But he doesn’t want to be dead,’ she said between sobs. ‘He wants to come back. He’s lonely.’
‘No, no. He misses you all, but he isn’t lonely. He’s happy, playing with his mother and father.’ He gently lifted Abbey’s chin. Kim had stopped to listen. ‘It
