Chapter 71

'Why did you do it?" He asked gently "I was young and foolish. I was only eighteen years old when I had you. Michael nodded. Stopping himself from adding "selfish" to the list she just made of herself. And he knew more than being young and foolish, she had been selfish. He looked at her. Head bowed down. In regret or shame. Perhaps both. He doesn t feel a thing towards her but amazingly he was no longer mad at her. She had said she was eighteen, a frightened scared girl, she must have been. But it s still no justification for having left. But he was going to understand from that perspective, that she was young, foolish, selfish, and scared. And let his bitterness and anger towards her go away. They remained in silence for a long while. Both lost in their thoughts. Michael continued to look at her with her head still bowed down, he was no longer sure why he d even come. To get answers. Now he had them. And then what. Forgive her. And take her bac