My Darling Shina - Book Three

Chapter Four

Even though Emily took my side, eager for me to be out of her hair, Father insisted I stay home for at least one more year. He said that although he could remember a bit about me, mostly memories that also involved Emily of course, he wanted to get to know me better before I left and was out of his reach for an unknown amount of time.

I could barely hold back the comments about how he didn't seem to care that Mom was out of his reach right now and he hadn't even once tried to find her. I didn't need him to pretend to care about me. Why wouldn't he let me go so I could find Mom and be with her again? Didn't he understand how much I missed her? Or did he not care simply because he couldn't remember her?

The only hope he would have when he finally remembered her, when he finally realized who he'd been ignoring all this time and came searching to find Mom, is that she has more forgiveness for him than I do. Maybe if she can forgive him, then I would contemplate doing so myself, but until then I would continue to hold his lack of action against him.

After all, even if I had forgotten her, I would do everything I could to gain her back simply because she is part of my family and family should be to important to let them vanish from your life so easily. I just couldn't understand how nobody else was doing anything, not even Anthony. Surely Anthony could get in contact with Father's contacts, the ones they had used in the past to find us when we were taken away. Instead it had all been me doing the work, me searching out information and new contacts.

If I had to stay here another year to appease Father, then so be it but I would be using that year to strengthen the contacts I had in Europe and find out as much information as I could before the year was up. I refused to be the one to fail Mom.