Melomiri

He Chose The Child I Chose My Freedom

Language: en

Caleb Reed got a girl pregnant after a night of heavy drinking. I didn't know until the girl was six months along. He told me to let her keep the baby, and we could go back to the way we were. I shook my head, my voice clinging to a single, desperate question: “Me, or that child? Choose.” He stood in silence for a long time that day, unable to give me an answer. But after I vanished, he regretted everything.

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