“Make what work? Co-parenting? Are you really going to let me be the mother of your child? Raise him alongside you?”
“Yes. I know how I’ve treated you before, and I was wrong. I meant what I said last night. We’re going to move forward, please give me a chance to prove myself to you, Nyx.”
Move forward. First, we had to get off this damn mountain. “Let’s go talk to Victor, but maybe I should do it. He’s been a little wary of you since we first arrived. I suspect he knows who you are.”
“I’m not going to scare a kid,” he grumbled. “I can talk to him.”
“We’ll talk to him together.” It wasn’t that I thought he meant to scare Victor, but I knew that boy was hiding. He was clean, for the first time in what was probably years. He’d thrown his support in with what turned out to be the king
