Chapter 96: Trust
[You were scared earlier, weren’t you?] Abigail asked Josh, and he nodded.
"I don’t want to get Pete in trouble with daddy," Josh said, and though Abigail didn’t like that he was referring to his biological father as Pete and Ryan as his daddy, she smiled at him and patted his hair.
[You did good. Tell me again. How did you meet him at the airport?] Abigail signed, curious to know how Jamal could have crossed paths with Josh.
"I was lost and scared, and he came to help," Josh said, explaining it as it happened, and Abigail couldn’t help but marvel at how the strings of fate kept pulling them all together.
She hoped that when it was time to take Josh away from Ryan, that the universe will help her make it easier on Josh.
[So, why do you want him to be my boyfriend?] she asked, and Josh giggled.
"He is kind and very handsome like me. And you are kind and pretty too," Josh said and Abigail laughed silently.
She wished she could just drop the act and communicate with him normally instead of pretending to be mute, but she knew Josh wasn’t ready for that yet.
He was a brilliant kid and she knew in time he would be ready for it. First she was going to slowly let him see the kind of liar that Ryan was, so that he would not trust him so much.
[I see. I don’t want Pete to get in trouble too. So, give me a minute to ask Pete what you should say if you’re asked what he told you.] she signed and he bobbed his head, glad that she was helping him out.
Abigail unlocked her phone and typed out a text for Jamal.