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David
It had been a long time since I felt like this.
No matter what I did or said, I wasn’t going to change Sutton’s mind.
I didn’t try to get her to answer the door again. That would be torture for her. She’d said her piece, and that was that. But it felt hollow.
And the thought that she didn’t trust me with him was equally heartbreaking. He wasn’t my kid, but I adored him. I wanted Sutton to trust me with him. I never expected that to happen overnight, but it’d been a year of me helping out with him. I hadn’t realized that would change when we started dating.
My mind was a firestorm.
It burned through me relentlessly.
But there was nothing I could do. So, I did the only thing I knew how to do. I worked. I lost myself in paperwork and emails and contracts. It was the easiest w
