Chapter 0789

“I need to talk to Alden. He needs to be here. If anyone should be by Peter’s side right now, it’s him and his grandson, Ethan.”

Maximus exhaled heavily, his voice laced with determination.

“I’ve been thinking about this a lot, Celeste. I don’t care if Peter has to forget us. What matters is that he lives. He’ll still be here, and we’ll still be in his life. And now… he won’t be alone.

“He has you.

“It caught me off guard to find out, but you’re going to have two beautiful children together.

“He already has Alden and Ethan. He has his best friend, Theodore. They would never abandon him. And neither will I. We will all be in his life. If he has the surgery, we have the chance to create new memories with him.”

Celeste remained silent.

The weight of everything was pressing down on her.

She thought back to the days Peter had spent with her. He had never once shown signs of being sick. But now she realized–Peter never let anyone see what was going on in his head.

“Celeste,” Maximus’s voice softened. “Peter is living in a limbo. I’m sure you’ve noticed how his moods shift- how sometimes he’s present, and then suddenly, it’s like he’s somewhere else.

“His mind is constantly drifting between the past and the present.

“Do you remember the couple that walked out of the courthouse with us? That woman–she was someone important to him in the past.

“When Peter had his accident, Mary was pregnant. That is the time period he remembers the most. His mind is

stuck there.

time you see his mood change, it’s because he’s going back to that

thinks he’s

longer true. The memories come in waves, and they confuse him. But when they pass… he comes back. The Peter you know returns–the one who knows what he wants, the one who knows who he

twisted as she listened.

terrifying this must be for him,” Maximus continued. “Seeing you pregnant. Knowing he could lose everything he’s lived through.

He doesn’t want to relive what happened fifteen years

go through with the surgery… he’ll

leave two babies without a father.

a son

hand,

me convince him to

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a lot, but please–don’t leave him alone.

he’s said and done things

I also see how much you care about

me that you have feelings for

yourself–you’re carrying

had before–a chance to

but he met him when Alden was eighteen. Peter missed out on his childhood–he never got to raise

both deserve a family. You

be there

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