Cal gripped his cutlery tightly, and for the hundredth time, he wondered why he had accepted this invitation for the Dankworth monthly dinner when he had declined the other twenty-three in the last two years.
Cassie had hated these dinners because they always left the mansion the next morning feeling drained and depressed.
But he continued to show up even after her death because he did not want his daughter to suffer the consequences of his decision to isolate himself from the world.
But it was clear by the time Nova turned two that she shared her late mother’s sentiments about this gathering even though she was still a toddler.
After he had the biggest fight with his father two years ago, when he said ~ two years is enough time to mourn and move on from a woman who the family never l
