The Last Second Chance (Blue Moon, #3)

by Lucy Score

Because I realized I didn’t have to change everyone else in my life to make me happy. I just had to remember who I was.”

“I am not weak. I am not stupid. And I am not disloyal,” Joey said, her voice shaking with rage. “What I am is your daughter, and that does not give you the right to do what you did. It was my life then, and it’s my life now. And right now, you are unwelcome in it.”

There is nothing like being a parent. A piece of you is walking around the earth maybe with your eyes and your wife’s smile. And that piece of you has to grow up and build his or her own life, feel the pain of that life, and find the joy in that life. When you see that piece of you hurt and scared,

it is a horrible, helpless feeling. Because you just want to fix it, swoop in and take over and solve the problems and protect them from this hurt. But you can’t. Because they aren’t just a piece of you. They are a human being learning how to survive and thrive in this world. And if you clean up every mess and bandage every scrape and shield them from every hurt, you take that self-reliance away from them. And that is what turns children into good men and women.

He wouldn’t be the other half of a couple, at least not yet. It was one of the dangers of love so young. Being half of a couple often comes before being a whole person.

“Leave it to a man to describe love as a prison.”