Episode 302: Family Affair

"Why didn’t she was throwing her life away?" Katherine asked in a hushed, anguished tone as party guests milled nearby.

"I am not throwing my life away!"

Ignoring his daughter for the moment, Phillip wrapped a comforting arm around his wife. He knew how much it meant to her to have the girl follow in her footsteps even though Adria hadn’t mentioned it since her eighth birthday. In the past he hadn’t taken Kath’s medical career as seriously as he should have, in fact he’d resented she didn’t quit once he became so successful. It was ignorant and had likely driven her to the arms of another man. Not that he’d ever asked. She had no idea he knew about Curran Gable.

"Kath, she’s not throwing her life away. That’s why I didn’t bother to tell you. I wanted to fix this without you worry even for a minute. She’s going to do something that matters. Like you do."

A slow smile spread across his wife’s face. As wounded as his ego continuously felt from her betrayal, that beautiful smile assured him it was right to forgive even if he couldn’t always forget. "What’s our plan for the girl?" She gazed up at him.

"Your plan?" Adria slammed her arms over her chest, digging her left heel into the lawn. "You’re talking about my life like I don’t even have a say."

"You don’t," said his eldest daughter, Justine.

Episode 303: Better Man