Riley.
'Pick the phone please.'
'Don't let her words get to you, Riley.'
'I am sorry on her behalf.'
'She is just a child, Riley. She wasn't sure of what she was saying.'
And many more annoying messages from Charles but the particular one that he was trying to tell me that Zelia was child made me more angry. So instead, I didn't even look at my phone.
Not even when I got to work late and he wasn't there, not even when he didn't call me or the office line to let me know that he was going to be late. Facing him was something that I wasn't sure I could easily do.
But then again, I was the one that was offended and hurt. So he should be the one feeling guilty for himself and his daughter. I gulped down the last coffee on the table, making it four cups that I had drank since I made it to
