TouchofaDom (14 page)
Authors: Madeleine Oh
“Yes, I wasn’t going to let him change my mind.”
“Are you glad you stayed on course?”
What a question. Adele reached out and took Branko’s hand.
Needing reassurance perhaps? “I’m not sure. This is confusing.”
“Yes, it is. Very confusing but, Adele, if you don’t find
the reality of your father too upsetting I would be happy to see you if you are
ever back down here again.”
“I live down here. I have a job. I’m a cook. In Eze.”
“So close,” she sighed. “How long have you been there?”
“Only a few weeks. I took the job after Mother died.”
“I see.” She turned to Branko. “And you, young man, were you
the reason she moved down here?”
“Actually no. I met her when she came. We work for the same
employer.”
“I see and you’ve become very good friends. Better treat my
daughter well, young man, or you’ll explain yourself to me.”
Female she might be but she sounded just like a father. “I
intend to,
madame
. I would never hurt her. I love Adele.”
Now he was the one in shock. Where had that come from? But
it was true. He looked across at Adele, her eyes wide in astonishment, and
smiled.
“Good!” Madame Royer sighed. “Part of me wants to suggest we
go out to dinner but I think it best if we do that later. I need some time to
grasp the full reality of this and so, I think, does Adele.”
“You’re not disappearing on me again, are you?” Adele asked.
“No, I have a business here and my entire life is here. And
now you’re here. Is your job permanent?”
“I’m on six months trial.”
“It’s permanent,” Branko said. “I can vouch for that.” He’d
damn well have a word with Luc when they got back.
They parted shortly after that. Adele was quiet as they got
in the car and headed back east along the
Croisette
.
“Are you okay?” he asked. Stupid question. How could she be
anything but in shock?
“Over the years I’ve made up all sorts of wild and wonderful
stories about who my father was, where he was or what he might be doing but
that possibility never entered my mind.”
“It’s a lot to come to terms with.” That was the
understatement of the year, if not the decade. “But he wants to see you again.
Will you?”
“I’ll see him, or rather her. I’m not sure how I’ll ever get
used to saying that,” she said. “But what I really want to know is did you mean
it?”
“That I loved you?”
“Yes. We barely know each other.”
In the biblical sense they “knew” each other darn well, but
she meant something much deeper than that. “True, and there’s a good bit you should
know about me. Like my criminal record—juvenile, I hasten to add—and my family
members in jail, and that may put you right off me. But never doubt, I love you
and soon I’ll have the opportunity to prove it with your lovely, bright-pink
flogger.”
She looked at him sideways and smiled. “Can you drive
faster?”
The End
Madeleine Oh is an expatriate Brit, retired LD teacher and
grandmother now living in Ohio with her husband of thirty-five years. She has
published erotic short fiction, novels and novellas in the U.S., UK and
Australia.
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