He really hadn't expected that his warm reunion with his daughter would anger her to the point of tears.
"I'm disciplining my own daughter! Stay out of it!"
Lara Nash, unable to contain her rage, screamed at him. Then, wiping away a tear, she turned to Cheryl with a harsh ultimatum. "Cheryl, you want to be with him, is that right?"
"Fine! Then go with him! And don't ever come back! I'll just pretend I never had a daughter!"
With that, she wiped her tears and rushed into Naomi Shaw's house. Only she knew that she wasn't just crying out of anger over their secret meeting. More than that, she was crying out of fear—fear that he would take Cheryl from her.
