He’d tried for hours to sleep but hadn’t been able to, his thoughts rushing through his head. He’d finally decided to get up, walking back down stairs and sitting next to the nearly gone fire. How had things gone so wrong? The girls had been with him for almost six months, and he thought they’d done a pretty good job of it, learning about each other and trying to move on from the death of their parents. He’d dreaded this conversation, and his heart felt like a stone as he’d not been looking forward to telling the girls that they wouldn’t be able to keep their mother’s tradition of giving toys to the needy children of Corinth. And Michelle--giving away so much money. He hadn’t thought to ask her about what he’d sent. He assumed that she’d spent it all on clothes, which had been very important to him. He groaned as he pushed himself up from the mantle and sat in the wing-backed chair next to it.
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