> "I know, honestly I do." Julia closed her eyes before mustering something
of
> a smile "But I went and pulled on you what I saw the problem to be.
Pretty
> much dismissing your experience because... well because I can't stand the
> thought of a child being hurt. I don't think Jane, no her own, would ever
> be able to hurt someone like that and..."
>
> She sighed and tilted her head to look up at him "I know you'll do
> everything you can to take care of whatever is happening. Just... try to
> include the others without calling them reckless?"
>
"I'll try," Derek told her, but the fact was they behaved recklessly
sometimes. "I can't imagine Jane doing something like that either and hope
she didn't do it on her own, but there is always a possibility that I do not
know her as well as I thought I did." That was something he did not really
want to accept, but he knew from past experience it was a hard reality he
just might have to live with.
