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in Iraq. That news had shook her up when she heard it, she had to admit. She was actually contacted by the company he worked for out there and was told, as his emergency contact, that he was dead, having been killed along with twenty others in an ambush. The news devastated her. She came home from work and cried for hours, her grief made worse by the fact that Kaitlin would never know her father now. Then six hours after the first call, she got another phone call, this time from Harry himself, telling her that he was alive. She cursed him and hung up the phone, then cried for another few hours after. When she finally told Kaitlin about the incident, Kaitlin had cried as well, even though she didn't know her father at all. Gemma hated Harry for putting them both through so much pain.
    When he finally came home not long after asking if he could be in Kaitlin's life, Gemma point blank refused for months. She didn't believe him that he was done with soldiering. It was only after he bought himself an apartment in the city and got a full time job that she started to believe he was telling the truth, and gradually she allowed him into Kaitlin's life. She owed her daughter that much. Kaitlin deserved a father, and despite his failings, Gemma thought Harry could be a good father, which as it turned out, he was. Kaitlin took to him almost straight away. The resentment Gemma expected her daughter to have for him not being there was minimal. It seemed she was just glad to have a father at last, someone she could look up to and be proud off. And Kaitlin was proud of her father. She viewed him as some kind of protector figure, like Kingsley Shacklebolt from her beloved Harry Potter books, saving anyone that needed saving, helping anyone that needed helping.
    Harry took to Kaitlin right away as well. She brought out a different side to him, a softer, more vulnerable side, that Gemma herself had only caught glimpses off when she was married to him. It was obvious that he would die for Kaitlin if he had to.
    And that was part of the problem for Gemma. His willingness to be there for both her and their daughter was at odds with the cold front she often presented to him. She was careful never to give him any indication that she still had feelings for him, lest he think there was some chance they could reunite. That could never happen. Yet even as she thought it, somewhere in the back of her mind, a small part of her wanted it to happen. She put it down to residual feelings left over from the past. The fact was, she had moved on, despite the lingering feelings. So had he probably. It was about Kaitlin now. Nothing more.
    Gemma startled when she heard a knock at the door. She hadn't heard anyone come up the drive, and she figured it was probably the postman delivering yet another book that Kaitlin had badgered her into ordering for her from Amazon. But when she looked out the window she noticed the car parked outside on the street. A silver Skoda. Harry's car.
    Gemma's heart started thumping against her chest.
     
    "Harry," she said when she opened the door. She looked past him to see where Kaitlin was. "Where's Kaitlin?"
    Harry stood staring down at her, grim faced. "I need to come in," he said, in a voice that was even more serious than usual.
    Gemma stared hard at him as confusion and fear began to creep up on her. "What's happened, Harry?" she asked, hoping she was jumping the gun, that there was a perfectly good reason why Kaitlin wasn't with him, even though they had left together only a few hours ago. But when she looked into his dark brown eyes, she knew she wasn't over reacting. His face said it all. "Where is she, Harry? Tell me where my daughter is, please."
    "We need to take this inside, Gemma."
    She shook her head, but stepped back so he could come in. Her arms folded tightly across herself while she waited on him closing the door behind him. Tears were already forming in her eyes as her mind raced through a dozen different scenarios