To receive a funny text message out of the blue, to rub your bald head and lean on your shoulder, but I know you’re still with me and that you are so proud. I’d give anything to hug you again, to hear your voice and your laugh. The next time I saw you, I was picking up your ashes. You were struggling and yet, when I took your hand, you opened your beautiful eyes and smiled at me. When I saw you in the hospital, I knew it was goodbye. The next morning, you crashed and went on the vent. I miss you, I love you-over and over again. I remember that you didn’t feel good, and I didn’t want to keep you long, but I wanted you to know I loved you-and that was our whole conversation.

I will always be thankful for our final call. We were FaceTiming and you smiled and said, “I am so proud.” Not long after, you’d test positive for COVID.

To the best Daddy in the whole, wide world.īefore you died, I got to tell you about all sorts of amazing things that were happening for me. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file with the publisher. Originally self-published in 2021 by Scarlett St. Published by Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks Sourcebooks is not associated with any product or vendor in this book. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.Īll brand names and product names used in this book are trademarks, registered trademarks, or trade names of their respective holders. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems-except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews-without permission in writing from its publisher, Sourcebooks. Sourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks.Īll rights reserved.

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A Touch of Malice by Scarlett St. Clair