Kaatjie! Fuck's sake. He thought he'd closed that chapter earlier in the week when he'd sent her home. He'd even written her later and apologized. He had not expected eleven year olds to be capable of vindictive scheming, but the daughter of Adriana Spaans was apparently the exception to the rule. Perhaps he should have known.
He'd gone half a shade paler, but his mother was still staring at him, intent on an explanation. He didn't know what Kaatjie had written in the letter, so trying to equivocate his way out of this one seemed like a losing battle. And what was his mother going to do to him, anyway? Force him to parent the girl? Clearly not; no one wanted that.
"A very foolish Dutch girl," he answered. "Who, to her great misfortune, happens to be my daughter."
He'd gone half a shade paler, but his mother was still staring at him, intent on an explanation. He didn't know what Kaatjie had written in the letter, so trying to equivocate his way out of this one seemed like a losing battle. And what was his mother going to do to him, anyway? Force him to parent the girl? Clearly not; no one wanted that.
"A very foolish Dutch girl," he answered. "Who, to her great misfortune, happens to be my daughter."
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