Chapter 43

• Epilogue
• Elaine smiled at her phone as she responded to her father’s text message. She found it amusing how he never failed to send her one each day from the secure phone Damien had given her, even though he hated texting. He called it a nuisance of the new generation and the fact that he suffered through it showed her how much he loved her. Each day she learned something new about her father that wasn’t the scary mobster persona he wore and she loved it, she loved him. It had taken her a while to get over the ‘I wishes’ and ‘ifs’ and just accepted, that what had happened in the past had happened and she had a future she could mold to her desires.
• At the moment that future involved waiting for Dale and Ellie’s twins to be born. They were all in the delivery waiting room, counting down the minutes until they stepped out of the delivery room holding their babies. The kids were on the floor playing, the younger ones were asleep in their car seats and the adults took turns pacing the tiled floor. Elaine found it hilarious how Tasha kept on going to the door trying to listen to what was happening inside the room. She was so impatient, it made her seem even more different from Ellsa.