AIDAN

‘We will be out of your hair by the time you return,’ Tara said.

Did she not know that I wanted nothing more than for her and our daughter to be all tangled up in my hair with no way of getting loose?

‘If you ever will,’ she said.

Fuck.

Her words played in my head on constant repeat as I drove back to the hotel, having canceled every other of my plans for the day. I couldn’t be productive in my state, so I just went back to my suite.

And ...