Could That Be The Reason?

He was going to get better.

He would show them.

Every single one of them would see.

What was so difficult about being sober?

He would be sober, and that damned Rohan would take him seriously.

Everyone would treat him as he deserved to be treated.

He deserved to be allowed to help find his daughter.

She is his daughter, after all, not theirs!

He would stay sober and get a job! Then he could get his children back and take them home!

“Sober, yes,” he thought as he lifted the glass of beer to his mouth.

Right after having this last drink, he would do exactly as he had said.

They should have found her by now, right?

Thomas's gaze went to the small blinking TV atop the head of the bartender.

The small tavern was the type where he could get a cheap, watered-down beer.

Just the type he could afford with the last dregs of his latest sales - his mother's china plates.

The bartender had collected money upfront before pushing the sloshing beer his way.