Chapter 58 Xander Meets His Daddy

• When Van Dyke was finally allowed to meet the child he had fathered, he stood, massive and looming over everyone in the tiny hospital room, staring down with a strange intensity, at the little life he had created.
• Three days had elapsed. Xander had been at the receiving end of two surgeries, to fix the bones he had broken in his fall, but luckily, they were on his leg and his right arm. He was currently in bandages, bawling with the discomfort, Claude guessed, more than the pain.
• Roxanne had gone home at some point and she had changed into a flowing pink dress that had been washed so frequently, that it was almost white in colour, a simple sleeveless frock in cheap cotton. Yet with her cascading brown mass of hair in a low ponytail at the nape of her neck, she looked refreshingly young, like a young girl. And both O’Grady and Delano noted the hunger in Van Dyke’s otherwise guarded expression when he allowed himself surreptitious glances at Roxanne.