Chapter 180

• “I’m sorry to hear about your husband.”
• “We were never been married, Forrest, but thank you. You see how you affect Megan. You changed her. Right now I am afraid I will lose her again.” Right now. Jesus! She knows where Megan is.
• “I won’t let that happen again, Dr. Reed. She changed me as well. I’d been planning to meet my father for years, but I didn’t know where to start. I risked something, everything. I sacrificed something just to settle and find answers to what happened to me and my mother. And one thing that pushed me to do the risk for the right reason was Megan. She made me realize how life was so short. If it wasn’t for her over the past few weeks, I would have listened to my mother, but I kept thinking of Megan that what life could I give her behind the shadow. I know it’s too early to think about it, but I like the feeling of being with your daughter. I’ve never felt more alive in years. But with her, I want to live. I want to have a normal life. So please, just tell if me she’s safe and okay? Because I am going insane right now thinking that she’s in danger. I won’t ask you where she is. All I want is for you to tell me yes if you know she’s safe. If something bad happens to her, I feel like it’s on me, Dr. Reed.” I closed my eyes for a moment, silently begging to hear her answer. “Please?” I never begged to anyone, but I would do it in a heartbeat for as long as I knew Megan was safe somewhere.