Crystal's POV:

I nervously waited for my son's answer, afraid that it would crumble the foundation I had been building around my fragile heart.

A knot of dread formed in the pit of my stomach, and I found myself starting to think that Laura was right. Children did need their father to be present in their lives.

And while my twins might not be old enough to make rational decisions, they were certainly old enough to know what they did and did not want. I couldn't be so selfish that I would inflict my own choices upon them.

"What's wrong, Mommy?" My little boy tugged at a strand of hair hanging on my forehead and gazed at me quizzically.

Jolting back to my senses, I tried to compose myself and act as though nothing was bothering me. "It's nothing. Mommy was just thinking of something. Sweetie, you haven't answered Mommy's question. Do you want a father?"

Arron's lips puckered, and his brows furrowed. "Are you getting married, Mommy?"

I blinked at him, surprised by his response. "Well... No. No, I'm not. It's just that... The other children all have a Daddy. Don't you envy them, Arron? Don't you want a Daddy, too?"

My son's expression shifted, and he gave me a smile that belied his young age. "I don't envy them. Arron only wants Mommy. There's nothing much different between the other kids and me. I don't lack anything."

the future." I held my son's chubby face in my hands and peppered

cheek. When he pulled back, there was a serious glint

my heart. I sniffed back my tears and whispered, "Do

lies!" The little boy puffed up his chest and

and crying. I picked him up and placed him

Arron

him for a while, but then he pulled back again with a frown. "But if Mommy feels lonely and wants to get married, I'm willing to have

first."

has no plans in getting you a new Daddy. A stepfather is

his head to the

whether I was lying or

bed

boy yawned, the corners of his

to sleep. Good night,

back into bed and

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