She had heard Brandon's hasty hesitation. "Is that all? No concerns about, about raising the child? About putting her education on hold? About how muc... it costs to raise a child nowadays?" Of course I'd worry about those," Brandon said. "When I said I'd ask her what she wanted to do, I meant in the short term. Like, Do you want to go through with this at all. Do you still trust me. Do you want me to be present in this baby's life. Do you want to have this baby at all." And you'd just... Meekly. "I'm in a bit of a bind, i just got called into work but i don't have anyone to watch Amber!" She said"You want to know if I can watch her?" Milo said"Please Milo, I'm disparate." she said.Milo sighed and nodded yes. Joyce smiled and turned to her door a twist of the knob and they were in. "Amber come here please."Amber a lovely Sixteen year old with Strawberry blonde hair walked out of her room in a flowery yellow Sundress and matching flats and stopped in her tracks."What the Hell is HE doing. He told how he had fallen into a period of depression, during which he had believed that Madison had only been a gift to him from his father; how he had mistakenly believed that she had just been one of his father's concubines; and basically, how he had not communicated well enough with his own wife to allow them to work through any issues that they may have had, sexual or otherwise."Mo, I have finally awakened to the truth over the past year. I still love Maddy with all my heart. I know that. I was fairly certain that Sophie was asleep by now after all I had put her through, but it was best to be safe. If I was about to somehow dodge a bullet here with Hanna, I didn’t want to suddenly have to deal with a mortified Sophie.“I - I got home early.” Hanna said in a distant and preoccupied voice. “I was going to surprise -”“Quiet!” I hissed in a low whisper. Hanna was talking in a normal, almost conversational tone, and if Sophie wasn’t asleep she was definitely going to hear her. “Look,.