Everything she said came from the bottom of her heart; she was holding nothing back.
When Leon Lynch heard this, he suddenly realized he wasn't as happy as he thought he would be.
He loved her dearly, even though she was about to have a baby.
Even though he wasn't the baby's father.
He just loved her. Nothing else mattered.
Love is a mysterious thing. Sometimes, even when you know you might not be fated to be with someone, you can't let go, and you don't want to give up.
"I'll stay by your side," he said seriously. "At the very least, even though he's the biological father, it seems like he's not getting treated very well right now—not as well as me, anyway. I'm the baby's godfather, so I can openly let the kids call me Dad. But it's different for him. I wonder what it would be like, the day he knows they're his kids but can only watch helplessly as they call me Dad. That must feel as awful as being constipated, right?"
