She’s With Me — Single Dad Spoke Calmly, The Billionaire Heiress Stood Frozen at the Table
Chapter 14
That winter, Daniel took Lily and Emma to the small house where Rebecca had grown up.
Snow covered the road.
Lily had asked to see it.
Emma was nervous.
Daniel noticed.
“You don’t have to compete with a memory.”
Emma looked at him.
“I know.”
“Do you?”
She smiled.
“I’m learning.”
They stood beside Rebecca’s old garden.
Lily placed flowers beneath a stone marker.
Daniel knelt beside his daughter.
“Your mother loved you.”
Lily nodded.
“I know.”
“And she would have loved Emma too.”
Emma covered her mouth.
Daniel looked toward her.
Lily ran into Emma’s arms.
“Daddy’s right.”
Emma cried.
Daniel laughed softly.
“Apparently, I have witnesses.”
That night, Daniel understood what he had been unable to understand for years.
Moving forward was not betrayal.
Loving again was not forgetting.
And being happy did not mean the people he had lost mattered less.
It simply meant grief had finally stopped being the only thing he carried.
