Romance

To Him We Were Never His

by Nine Fifteen

Six hours after our daughter, Eva Reid, goes missing, my search-and-rescue captain husband, Jordan Reid, sends the emergency response unit to his first love, Layla Barton, again.I freeze as I listen to his command to the team. "Head to the south side of Mount Sarthia first. No personal matters during duty hours."It is always like this whenever Layla and I are in trouble at the same time. He is always so "unbiased".When I was on the verge of a miscarriage during my pregnancy, he stayed completely unbiased and went to fix Layla's pipes, claiming a single mother had it harder.When Eva suffered a high-fever seizure, he stayed completely unbiased and accompanied Layla to a therapist, arguing that depression needed careful handling.Now, with Eva's life on the line, I am cast aside once more.I clutch Eva's left-behind backpack, my voice trembling in desperation. "Jordan, Eva has been missing for six hours. She could die out there."He doesn't even look up as he signs the dispatch sheet. "She's my daughter, which is exactly why I need to set an example."Yet Layla's daughter merely gets separated from her summer camp group, her GPS tracker fixed squarely on a safe location.Still, Jordan reassigns every single rescue vehicle simply because Layla cries to him, "Jordan, my daughter is all I have."As if our daughter is any less precious.At that moment, clarity hits me.Jordan is not incapable of playing favorites. It is just that Eva and I never matter enough to be his favorites.

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