DUNCAN
Father is in a restaurant very close to where his town hall meeting will start in about an hour. He had booked the entire place, and there was no one in the restaurant except for the staff. June doesn't like the idea, given the other time she had a very quiet meal with him; it ended up in chaos. I know that feeling too.
The entire time we were being escorted to Father by the waitress, I could feel June panicking. When I glanced at her, she looked stiffened and kept swallowing; you could see the tension in her neck. Before I could assure her that he was not going to hurt her, I felt her small hands grab mine, and all my muscles tautened, stopping me from stepping forward.
How can I tell her this isn't the place? If I let go, what kind of a man will I be?
"I can't." She choked, he
