"Nah," he says. It doesn't. There was so much of Sara's stuff he never wanted to see again. The fact that he'd gone off the damn rails upon seeing the book he read her in the hospital can attest to that, he figures, and she was his daughter.

"It doesn't make you sound awful." He frowns, then gets up and nudges her foot off the couch so he can sit there, dropping her foot across his thighs once he's settled. "It sucks, Laura. Whether you broke up with him or not."