The moment Megan told Chloe they were going to the store to pick up some medicine for her dad, the little girl began asking questions. From the sound of it, Paul had never been sick—or at least, not that Chloe could remember. Chloe only had one parent left. She didn’t want him to go away, too.
It was then Megan truly understood the little girl’s freak-out when she’d thought Megan was going to leave. To think that one of the two people at the center of her world was going away, especially after she was already missing her mother in her life, was a scary prospect for a five-year-old.
The questions continued in the store. “What’s this for, Megan?”
“It makes it so you don’t cough.”
Megan moved on to the next item on her list.
“What about that?” Chloe asked when Megan placed a box of tea i
