@DarkyMagics “She used to fit in my arms like that,” she said quietly, a little wistful. “Now she’s too busy cooking five-course meals for invisible customers.”
Looking back at Seth, catching the way he was smiling at her, her cheeks flushed lightly. +
@SarahRoutl3dg3 Iliza looked at her, broken and pleading for something — maybe guidance, maybe just understanding.
“I don’t want to be the one who shatters that for her.”
Iliza was surprised by the unexpected visit from @SarahRoutl3dg3, it had been quite some time, years, she avoided all the Cameron’s like the plague since her messy break-up with Rafe.
“Is everything okay?”
@SarahRoutl3dg3 “But how do you tell a little girl that her father…” Her throat tightened, the words too cruel to finish. She shook her head.
“She’s so little, Sarah. She’s so full of life. She still thinks the world is good.” +
@DarkyMagics “Kinda crazy… feels like Phoebe was that small just yesterday.”
She looked back at him, a teasing glint in her eye. “Careful, Carrera — you’re about to make me all sentimental, and then you’ll really be stuck with me.”
@DarkyMagics She gave him a playful nudge with her shoulder, a smile tugging at her lips.
“First fan, huh? You better hold onto that — they’re harder to come by when they start talking back.”
Her eyes softened a little watching the baby.
@SarahRoutl3dg3 “How am I supposed to explain this to Phoebe someday? That the man who gave her life… took mine apart?”
She shook her head slowly, overwhelmed, lost in a heartbreak she thought she’d buried years ago.
@SarahRoutl3dg3 “I loved him once,” she whispered, more to herself than to Sarah. “I trusted him with everything I was. And now…”
Tears welled in her eyes, but she blinked them back, forcing the words through the lump in her throat.