Chapter Four HunterA few days after Kate confirmed that she wanted the apartment, I was sitting in the living room with Maddie, reading the paper while she worked on assembling the latest Lego set I’d bought her. As a civil engineer, I felt it was important to buy my daughter just as many building projects as I did baby dolls.
I glanced over at Maddie and couldn’t help but smile at the scrunched-up, determined look on her face. She was quite the problem-solver, my little girl, and I loved to challenge her mind with different educational toys and games. And teaching her that just because some boy called her pretty didn’t mean she had to share her cupcake, and lots of other important life lessons. Although the conversation the other night was one I’d have preferred wait for another twenty y
