“I’m certain Alex is ok. Come on, I’ll pop this shirt on after which I’ll go make us each a scorching chocolate and we will watch TV.”

An hour later, she’s snoozing in opposition to me. My headache’s nonetheless there, nevertheless it’s eased a little bit, and being house together with her is such an enormous consolation.

Alex.

That entire scenario doesn’t really feel any higher, however I’ve received different issues to fret about now.

I miss you.

17

Lana

The next morning is a special story.

Casey’s cries wake me. It’s the weirdest feeling after I’ve spent the previous 12 months together with her sleeping properly. She wasn’t the perfect sleeper till she was two, however being sick appears to have wrecked that for the second.

“Ohh, don’t scratch, child.” I race into the room and pull her hand from her face. Her spots have tripled in a single day, and he or she’s received a wholesome dose of them down her neck and disappearing into her pyjamas.

Her backside lip juts out.

“I’ll go and get one thing to cease them from itching. Okay?”

“I would like Daddy.” Her decrease lip trembles, and massive fats tears roll down her face.

I shut my eyes and attract a deep breath. We’ve been depressing these previous few days. Alex might be on the verge of leaving the nation—for all I do know, he may have already gone.

However we’re not collectively anymore.

“Daddy,” she wails.

I stroll out of the room and into the toilet to get a bottle of calamine and a few cotton wipes. Pausing in entrance of the mirror, I sigh and rub my face with my palms. I slept pretty properly in a single day, however my drained eyes make me really feel like I’ve barely slept in any respect. Gritting my enamel, I return to her bedside. I do know she’s upset, however I can’t do that right now.

Opening up her pyjama prime, I tip some calamine onto the cotton and clean it over her spots. They’re all over the place. How on earth did they unfold from a handful the day earlier than to this?

She’s nonetheless squawking about Alex as I cowl her entrance after which her again. I ensure her neck and the couple of spots she has on her face are coated earlier than I pull down her pyjama pants and wince at what number of extra spots she has.

“Oh, Casey. You poor factor.”

“You place the drugs on the spots, Mummy?”

I nod. “Sure, sweetheart. I’ll put the drugs on the spots and cease them from itching.”

She rubs her eyes. “I would like Daddy.”

“You bought me. Let’s get these coated.”

Swiping her spots with the calamine, I ignore her grizzles. I’m at my restrict for persistence as my head throbs and sweat pours off me.

“Daddy,” she says for a hundredth time.

I’m so over that phrase. I may reside to be 100 and by no means wish to hear it once more.

“Alex shouldn’t be your daddy, Casey,” I snap.

My abdomen churns even earlier than she lets out an extended screech.

I clutch my head in my palms. If I used to be properly, I’d deal with this higher. However I’m such a large number, I can’t even maintain it collectively for my little woman.

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