“Daddy came back after that and worked on it the whole night,” Robbie added.

“I know he fixed my invention too. One of the screws went missing so I couldn’t put everything together, but when I looked at it just now, everything was intact. It must be Daddy. He must have found that missing screw.”

“Daddy…” Jamie began to sob.

Robbie did not say a word but lowered his head. He looked at the model he invented. His eyes turned red and a tear dropped from his eyes.

He quickly turned away so Charlotte would not see him crying, but it was too late.

Charlotte felt guilty looking at her children.

 

She knew all they ever wanted was a complete family, but that was what Charlotte could not give them.

It was not just about holding the family together in a superficial sense. They needed a lot of reconciliation on the emotional level too.

 

The only thing Charlotte could do now was to minimize the hurt she would bring to them.

She bent down and smiled at them. “Daddy loves y’all a lot. Y’all should be grateful for that.”

and went out to

as he stood before the study table in his room, looking

can stay with Daddy if you want to, Robbie.

the children would not be happy around

my mind, Mommy,” Robbie said, turning toward her, “I

failed Charlotte. She did not know

Erihal. You’ll bring me back to H City

might never come back to H City again, Robbie,” Charlotte said softly, “But I will not

expression before he asked

stopped just as he was about to knock on the

all of you. Nothing

Robbie looked at her in the eye. “Do you still love

and looked at Charlotte with mixed

wanted to ask this question, but Robbie beat him to

on herself. A bitter smile curved on her lips. “Things

resignation and regret

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