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My head spins, but I struggle to keep laring at her

Her grin drops The stupid bitch is confused because I’

"There’s more…"

"More that I really don’t want to hear about Now, if you’re finished, I would like to go," I growl, turning and walking off

"You’ll regret being with him," she cries "You will! Just ask what happened to his ex-wife"

Another blow, a big one

Bigger than the kid

I gasp, but keep walking When I get around the corner, rip the wall for support A child A wife Why didn’t he tell me any of this? How did I not knoasto gather e until you know the story…I repeat this over and over, all while trying to catch my breath and stop the ache inme He looks concerned, his eyebrows are furrowed

"You okay?"

"Is it true?" I whisper "Do you have a kid?

His jaw tenses and he sighs loudly, looking down at the floor

"Is it?" I say, as calrips s me, and I let him He leads me up onto the deck and barks at everyone to "fuck off" before he takes us over to an old bench that’s bolted to the deck We sit down, and he turns to face me

"I don’t even knohere to start, I haven’t told this story for so many years I know exactly who told you, and believe et her ass kicked for it later, but you kno, so I guess I need to give you soically"

I’m just confused now He sees it in my face, and continues

"When I was fifteen years old, I was in a bad place Most fifteen-year-old boys were out with their friends, enjoying life I was battling to survive My parents were dead, and I was on the street with no fairl She enty-one and basically, a prostitute She tookme on the street She ot together She had a five-year-old son His dad was dead and he had nothing I fell into a relationship, and eventually, over the years, the boy begun to call me Dad I ith them until I enty-five, so a solid ten years"

He takes a deep breath and then continues

"I married Lizzie when I enty years old I was just a kid still, but she was all I had Her and Di addict, and she got herself tangled into so and creatingwith her probleot into it was an old friend of otit would be the best option for Lizzie and Diot involved in the pirate world to save a woman that really didn’t care about me or her son"