He Gave Another Child the Fatherly Love My Daughter Begged For

My daughter asked me the way she always did. "Is Papa still not coming home for my birthday?"

I couldn't bear it and wanted to lie to her again, but instead she was the one comforting me.

"Papa must have gone to be with Auntie Rosalind again, the one who keeps threatening to leave her husband. It's the same if Mama spends it with me."

My eyes filled with tears at once.

The night Lorenzo Fallaci and I were married before the whole famiglia, Rosalind started making noise about her own marriage falling apart.