CHAPTER 103
Mandy startled back at the verbal slap.
“I— He—Damn it! A man comes to you. A man you love. A man your daughter loves. But he’s full of himself. Not the sort you’d ever expect to settle down. He’s moody, romantic, cranky, and foolish. Then he gives your daughter the perfect gift, a mother-and-daughter bear. And he proposes marriage.”
“Mother and daughter. I always thought it was father and daughter.” Shelley glanced down at crystal.
Mandy looked at Jeff. It was a gut punch to both of them.
“I hated you for my not having a father.”
How was Mandy supposed to answer that? Shelley knew her father was a college fling. He’d graduated and moved on before she knew she was pregnant. He’d been living with a girl in Seattle by the time she’d found him. He eventually married the Seat
