Finn- Double
”I can’t do this.”
My steps slowed as I turned to look at her. Had she ever looked so small and timid? Like a tiny bird who was about to face the hungry cat. Her face was so pale, it made the smattering of freckled stand out across her nose.
She swayed as if she was about to faint and I went to her in a second. My hands coming down on her shoulders to steady her. “You can Delilah.” My eyes met hers and held her stare.
Dammit she was crying.
“I can’t.” She hiccuped. “I can’t Finn.”
The way she said my name was breaking my heart. When was the last time she had called me Finn in that voice. When her father had died and I had stepped into the place left behind my Dom going off the rails. That was the last time she had called out for me like that. In her lost little girl’s
