Grayson "I won't stand in your way if you want a relationship with her." I sneered at the noble statement. Elaine's words should have made me happy—that she wouldn't keep me from my daughter—but the thought tasted even more bitter each time I turned it over in my head. If I wanted a relationship with her? If... It irritated me that she would think that. That I wouldn't want my own kid. Sure, fatherhood had never been in my plans. I always swore I would never ruin a child's life the way mine had been. But that didn't mean I would just turn my back on them like a senseless bastard. No—I was a different kind of bastard. "Well, can you blame her?" my mind shot back, and I growled, pacing my home office, eyes locked on the direction of the Sunny cabin through the window. Not that

