Chapter 5

Dallas had no idea what to say. She’d never seen this side of her father before. It made her love for him grow more and at the same time her heart pinched a little more for Zane. He’d been through so much.

“I’m giving you my blessing to be with them. If you love them, then be with them, but if they ever hurt you . . .”

He didn’t have to finish the sentence because she knew there would be hell to pay if they were to break her heart.

“I don’t think that is going to happen.”

“Then I’d be happy for them to take care of you.”

Suddenly the urge to see Cole and Zane became overwhelming. She began to fidget in her seat. Jacob chuckled and pushed himself to his feet.

“Go on. Get out of here and go see them.”

She stood and reached out to help him but he shrugged her off. “Go on, get out of here.”

She wrapped her arms around her father’s waist and he hugged her back. For the first time in her adult life, Jacob Henry embraced his daughter in a gen