brave

Chapter 6

Richard stormed over. Red-faced.

“This is ridiculous,” he snapped. “He doesn’t belong here. He’s nothing.”

Dad stepped forward.

“I may be poor,” he said. “But I am not nothing. I am her father. And she chose me. That makes me everything.”

He looked Richard in the eye.

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“You judge a man by his suit,” Dad said. “But you never looked at his heart. And that… is why she chose me over all of you.”

Richard opened his mouth. Closed it. He had nothing left to say. He turned and walked away—alone.

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