“You would have come back, Hemi, but you would have resented me for it. Enough to eventually leave us both. It’s one thing to walk out on a grown woman. It’s another to do it to a child. I couldn’t risk that happening to Zachary.” “That’s who you thought I was? A man who’d turn his back on his own child?” “I had no idea who you were—or what you would do. As far as I knew, you had betrayed my confidence and gone back on your word. But I would have forgiven all of that. What I couldn’t forgive was you walking out of my life without a word, as if I’d been nothing to you. I’ve seen what happens
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and also I think she was justified. obviously a conversation, a real one, a good one, and actually disclosing what was in their notes, would have solved ALL this, but what's done is done! I can sympathize with both sides
