I’m your dad.

I should have been here sooner.”
He slept through my apology.

That was fair.

I had a lifetime to prove that my next promise meant something.

PART 4
Maya woke shortly before noon.

She noticed my chair beside her bed and asked whether I had missed my flight back to Germany.

Even through pain and exhaustion, she was worried about my obligations.

“I’m not going back,” I told her.