I couldn't let that go, and spent the next six hours alternately holding her as she cried, crooning comforting words into her ear, and going back and ...orth to the bathroom with warm, wet wash cloths to wipe her face.Winnie brought lunch and dinner to us, and I hand fed Regina, insisting that she eat to avoid getting sick.Eventually I felt she had mourned her worthless mother's behavior enough. "Get changed!" I announced firmly. "We are going shopping."And we did.We spent five-hundred thousand. A little while later, still deep in her own what ifs, what might have beens and finally the what might be, she realized the plane was landing. She was home. Her heart suddenly felt warm, at ease - that moment when she knew everything would work out, and the past wasn't as important. The now would be as it should be and she waited to deplane. The biggest grin flashed across her face – an almost giddy feeling she had as she stepped off the plane and took a deep breath of that sweet smell of ocean. But you turned out to be devil)“Hello Malini. Hello… Maine koi zabardasti nahin ki hai tumse. Proposal rakha hai tumhara samne. Main accha aadmi hoon. Warna abhi isi waqt tumhari izzat loot leta. Tumhe nahin pata ki tumne aur tumhari beti ne mere andar ek aag paida kar diya hai. Abhi agar mein pant nikalke dikhaoon to mera pura khadak aur lamba ho gaya hai. Dekho phir kehta hoon. Chahe to proposal ko haan bolo ya chalti bano”(I have not forced you into anything. I have just placed a proposal in. How many daughters the world over, could ever have been so fortunate, she pondered momentarily. Pulling his arms tightly around her shoulders, she stared at the tranquil vista. Just across from Tulsy Crescent that fronted Bear Creek Park, some small children were playing in the recent snowfall, seemingly reluctant to follow their mother to the park’s exit gate. Michaela’s instincts left her in no doubt that this is where she and her father were supposed to be. Not a week later, Daniel’s.