“But Daddy…”
“Cori, Cori…let me talk to Dexter.” She handed him the phone. “How far away are you?”
“Realistically, about forty-five minutes,” Dexter replied.
“Call me back in fifteen minutes and let me know where you are.”
“Yes sir.”
“Be careful.” He ended the call.
“You didn’t know they were getting married?” Dexter asked.
“No.”
“If I’d known, I…”
“What, would have changed your schedule?”
“Yeah.”
She shook her head and turned away. The thought of possibly missing her sister’s wedding infuriated her. She couldn’t hold her anger in any longer.
“Dexter, I don’t understand what’s going on with you. You’ve known for a while that I wanted to come a day early.”
“And I told you to go and I’d come later.”
“You also knew I wanted to do a family dinner with my parents and Kyla and Sean.”
“You could have done that.”
“How could I, when part of the family was working?”
“All you had to do was tell your family I was working and coming later. They would have understood.”
“I’m tired of explaining your absence from family functions.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“How was your surgery?”
“What are you talking about?” He looked at her waiting on a reply but was treated to the back of her head. He turned his eyes back to the highway. “Corianne, answer me,” he demanded.
She turned and looked at him trying to figure out who this man was, because the man she loved and married would never have been so callous. “I called your office and Nancy said you left because your surgery had been postponed.”
“That’s correct.”
“Where were you and why were you so late getting home?”
“Oscar called before I left and asked me to cover his lecture because he had to do an emergency appendectomy.”
“Why didn’t you tell him to get someone else?”
“Because I owed him.”
“You owed him?” She shook her head and turned back to the window.
“What?”