[72] MEMOIR

“How are you doing?” Aramide asked her father as they both sat down in her private lounge. Aramide tried to not focus on the years they had spent apart, but instead focus on the time they had now and of course finding her daughter.

Aramide watched Richard sip his coffee and then drop it back on the table, he bit his lips as his gaze rested on Aramide before he opened his lips to speak “I'm doing okay, handling some shipping businesses and —and waiting for the day after tomorrow ” he whispered the last part as their eyes locked 

“Blaire's anniversary,” they said it together at the same time before each person tore their eyes away from each other, it was a silent secret between them that Richard blamed himself for Blaire's death, Aramide blamed herself too, but for Richard it was different, he was obsessed with the fact that if he had been with her, in that moment and that day when she died, she c