You've changed but it's not enough
And doubt is insidious
Creeps up on you softly
I can't' get it off me, I can't get it off me now
-Marianas Trench "Glimmer"
Arresting his father was the hardest thing he had ever done. It was even harder than trying to raise his niece alone, and he had thought nothing could be harder than that.
However, he had let himself hope that perhaps Elizabeth was right. Perhaps people could change. Not that any change would change the past. What was done was done. Nothing would change the fact that his father had been absence from a good part of his childhood because he was in jail. He sometimes wondered if his father had really been present even before that. His father had been addicted to gambling for as long as Nathan could remember.
His father had broken his mother's heart. Nathan would never forget the times he had found his mother crying over something that his father had done. Instead of spending time with his family, Archie Grant had been out gambling. Instead of supporting his family, he had landed himself in jail not once, but twice.
Nathan had promised himself that he would be nothing like his father. He had vowed to look out for his mother and sister, even if he was the youngest member of the family. His father had forced him to become the man of the house at a very young age.
He had wanted to protect Ally from the heartache he had grown up knowing.
However, Archie had seemed to change. He had been apologetic. From all accounts, he hadn't been gambling while in the saloon. He had claimed that he wanted to reconnect with his family. That he wanted to know his granddaughter and Ally had wanted to know her grandfather.
In a lot of ways, his job had robbed Ally of part of her childhood. He was the only family that Ally knew, her own father having run off and left her.
So, he had relented. He had given Archie a second chance against his better judgement.
And in return he had gotten the phone call about the warrant for his father's arrest.
Despite his father's claim that he was innocent, Nathan had a hard time believing it. From his viewpoint, Archie Grant hadn't changed that much at all. Just when you let him in, he managed to disappoint everyone that loved him. It was simply the way things were.
But didn't justice mean a man was presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Where was the necklace that was stolen? Just because Archie had money on him, didn't mean he had gotten it from the stolen necklace.
Nathan knew that finding the necklace was the only way he would know for sure and the only way to track down the necklace was to head to Benson Hill.