CHAPTER NINE
A phone began to ring. "Oh, sorry, Can you excuse me?" Elizabeth asked. She walked off. The man followed her with his eyes until she was a good ways down the street. The smile on his face turned into a frown of confusion and his gaze turned back to Aria.
"Aria…" He said. So he did remember? "What are you doing …here?"
"What do you mean?" She gulped.
"I mean… You left and never came back," he paused. "I didn't think you would after…"
"After what?"
"After… After what happened with us." He seemed to be struggling with his word choice.
"That was a long time ago. It was silly." She paused taking in his face. "You didn't want to lose your job. You came to your senses. There's nothing wrong with what you did."
He sighed, "Yeah… but I could have been better about it. I shouldn't have told you off like that." He turned around to still see his daughter speaking on the phone.
"So… Elizabeth is your daughter?" she asked quizzically.
He took a step like that. "I married her mother when she was three…" he paused thinking, "I adopted her."
Aria nodded.
"So… What about you? Any kids? Married?"
"Not married." She said with almost a laugh. She pointed to her finger.
He nodded, "I could have guessed that."
They stood there awkwardly. "So I've got to go… but it was nice meeting you," she winked. She then decided to turn around and go back to her car. She and Alodia would just have to deal with Burger King.
Ezra just stood there standing until his daughter came back. "Ready to go in? Jamie's here."
He nodded still turned away from her.
"So what did you think of Dr. Montgomery? Isn't she absolutely great?"
He turned to her and smiled. "Yep." They then proceeded to walk down the street.
