“If you really don’t want to stay here—”
“I just don’t want to rely on a man,” I say quickly. “Not a man like him.”
“I get that,” Charity says. “But, honey, we have nowhere to go. We have no money or resources. We don’t have family to turn to or friends we can count on.”
“We have each other,” I point out.
She smiles. “True. That’s something. That’s definitely something.”
“But I see your point.”
“Lys, Phoenix is Theo’s father,” she says cautiously. “It’s not fair that you have to raise him on your own.”
“I don’t want help raising him.”
“No, of course not. But financially…”
I sigh. I don’t want to ask Phoenix for anything, especially not money. But the look on Charity’s face makes me reconsider. If we had money, we could at least find a safe place to live for a little while. We’d ha
