I watch as Gabriel care for Caspian, as I let things settle for myself. The man claimed he was my father, but I had no real means to know if he w as right or wrong. If he was lying or he was being truthful. My mother has never talked about my father. I have never seen a picture of him, and everytime I tried to talk my mother into helping me contact him, she’d refuse vehemently. As a child, I eventually gave up, and as I’ve grown, I didn’t really put much thought into it. I simply got used to being just the two of us.
The man seems strangely infatuated with the child and suddenly, that becomes unsettling. I force myself up, ignoring the gut wrenching pain that shoots through my body as my feet hit the ground and I stand up. If it was not for my determination to get my child and walk away,
