Chapter 12: You’re a designer?

Tieran asks me once again if we should leave, but I shake my head this time. I’m calm enough to confront this now, and he’s given me the strength I need. He opens the door and my father comes in once again, and this time we go through introductions.

His name is Damien Elcroft. The Damien Elcroft, Founder and CEO of Elcroft Pharmaceuticals.

As Tieran said, he’s been a social recluse for more than the past ten years, and after an accident he had while drunk driving, he had an injury that affected his spine and made him lose his ability to walk temporarily. Standing causes him serious pain. Walking, even more.

I feel a strange emotion flow through my heart because I can't imagine the kind of pain he’d have been in when he stood up and made his way over to me. Only to drop on his knees too.

When it comes to my turn, I take a deep breath and tell my father everything I can about my life.

I tell him about the lonely childhood with Grandma and Grandpa. I tell him about my mother’s death, an