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“I have the option of leaving your son,” I said “I can leave at any time”

Lucas nodded “That you can do With everything that happened, The Society is giving you the chance to have a clean break No debts Nothing”

“I should be happy about that,” I said

“But you’re not?” he asked

“I don’t kno I feel about it”

“I know that my son is very much in love with you”

“You can’t know that,” I said

“But I do Gideon … he’s a stubborn one I trained him hard I knohat he has to face and what he has to be like in order to survive this world I’retting so much that I’ve barely even lived the past nineteen years Instead, I’ve tried not to stalk a woman that cawith her”

“You love her that much?”

“I do I know if you choose to leave, ot to his feet “I know The Society is not for everyone I know it can take as ives I lived both, but they fixed my messes I’ve seen the way you look at ave it a chance, you’d be able to make it work”

“Four irl That’s the stuff that’s in stories” I should know about it I wrote a coupleto help amuse my day away

“And soaveaway

As conversations went, it wasn’t exactly inspiring, but it had given ht

Chapter Nine

Gideon

My dad had taken the laptop I didn’t knohere he was going with it or who he was going to give it to, hopefully to resolve this et Sian her mother back She deserved so that I was going to lose her the ht to justice

These past ten months after Heather’s death had been the worst ones I’d ever gone through Watching Sian see able to reach her

I didn’t know if I could handle that again