“I would have loved that kid. I would’ve done anything for it. I wouldn’t have abandoned it,” he quietly mumbles to himself. “I didn’t want to be a crap dad like mine was,” he moans with pain, and it’s just beginning to dawn on me why it all wears him out so much. “I had sworn to be different, yet, I already let you down at the beginning.”
Oh God! What could I say to that in comfort? I take his face between my hands, and kiss away the tears from the corners of his eyes.
“I won’t doubt that for a moment. I don’t know anyone more caring than you. We both did wrong, Rafe. Not only you, but me too, and we paid a big price for that. But we’ve learned our lessons.”
“I don’t want anything to stand between us. You are the most important thing in my life, I swear, Rae.” I smile at him through my
