A Free Soul, Unfettered Days
Language: en
Eight years of marriage, and my husband was still a stranger to our son. He always missed Leo’s parent-teacher conferences. If Leo called out "Dad!" in public, Arthur would never answer. It broke my heart every time my son would look up at me, his eyes clouded with fear, and whisper, “Mommy, does Daddy hate me?” Arthur was a man carved from ice, naturally cold and detached. Leo was an accident, a surprise that broke our child-free pact. I fought to keep him, but I could never make Arthur love him. I thought this was just how our lives would be, a quiet, constant ache. Until the day a…