The You I Never Knew
Chapter One
After seventeen years, Michelle Turner was going back. Back to a
past she didn't want to remember, to the father she barely knew, to
the town where she grew up too fast, fell in love too hard, and
wound up pregnant and alone.
During the long drive from Seattle to Montana, she rehearsed-under
her breath so Cody wouldn't hear-what she would say when she got
there.
"Hello, Daddy." Funny how she still thought of him as Daddy, even
though he'd never been much more than a picture on the wall or
sometimes a face on the TV screen late at night when his old movies
played. "Sorry I didn't come sooner ..." Sorry ... sorry ... sorry. All
those regrets. So many of them.
Sorry wouldn't do. Gavin Slade-her father had kept his professional
name after retiring-knew damned well what had kept her away so long.
She flexed her hands on the steering wheel of the Range Rover and
glanced over her shoulder at her son in the backseat. Cody was lost
in the space between the headphones of his Discman. Maybe I'm the
one who's lost, she thought. Here she was, thirty-five years old and
the mother of a teenager, and t ... read full excerpt from: The You I Never Knew ebook
