Chapter 215

-Grayson’s POV-

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“Are you going to say something?”

“Grayson?”

“Can you hear me?”

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The voice felt distant, muffled, like they were reaching me from the other side of a thick glass wall. I was aware of the world still moving around me, of people breathing, speaking, living–but I had gone completely still.

I wasn’t even sure if I had been breathing.

Pregnant. She was pregnant.

With my child.

The weight of the realization slammed into me like a train, knocking the air straight out of my lungs. A whole new human being existed–because of me. Because of us.

I had kicked her out when she was carrying my child.

The thought made my stomach churn, a tight, twisting sensation spreading through my chest.

How long had she known?

“Grayson?”

My gaze snapped up, and my vision finally registered Elaine’s face. She was watching me carefully, a hesitant expression settling over her features.

She let out an apologetic sigh, “I didn’t know you didn’t know. I just thought… I mean, since it’s been three months now- that’s right before things went wrong between you two–I just figured…” She hesitated, “That you knew.”

But I didn’t know.

I wouldn’t have even thought-

“I don’t want to have children.”

The words rang in my head, sharp and clear, a memory from months ago. I had meant it. Or at least, I had thought I had

meant it.

certainty was slipping through my fingers like sand, impossible to hold onto. She hadn’t told me because she didn’t think I

Did I?

want

child?

dozen

bound to mine forever. A helpless little

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need me.

be that person and not screw it up like my father

even deserve

through the storm in my head, “Have you thought about what you’re going to say

I had been staring blankly at the

her? To

throat tightened. What was I going to

could I

don’t know.”

what to feel, what

moment before

exhaled shakily, running a hand through my hair. “Because I told her I didn’t

still feel that way?”

opened my mouth, but

Did I?

never wanted to bring a child into this world, never wanted to

how things were with your father,” Elaine

between us, and for a moment, neither of us spoke. I swallowed hard. “I don’t know how to be a father, Elaine. I

to,” She said simply.

for this. No trial run. No undoing it. This wasn’t just some decision I could make and walk

And so did the reality of what I had

now, I didn’t even know if she’d want me to

thought alone sent a sharp, unfamiliar ache through my

down it felt like I lost

lose my child, too? Did I care if

revolved around as

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my head around it. I couldn’t think straight. Every time I tried, it was like my thoughts were caught in a tangle, spiraling in every direction but the one I needed

we stepped off the plane and into the terminal, a team of well–dressed attendants immediately approached. Their eyes were sharp, practiced in their professionalism, and they greeted me with

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