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The courtroohter than ever before His deep and raspy I-love-yous echoed in ed in his ar the stor else froe Gratha in ency
I didn’t have much else to say to theto have to sit it out
Turning in Porter’s arot a heart," he whispered, lifting his phone in the air as if I could read the e on the screen
Chills exploded over my skin "What?"
Porter echoed iant sot a heart!"
Ti, but it felt too incredible to be real So I asked again, "What?"
Porter pattedh that broke at the end as he announced, "They found hi toward the door, only slowing long enough to take his wife’s hand and drag her after him
But I didn’t move
"Porter?" I whispered and tilted aze was locked at the judge "Please, your honor Let ery It could be the last tie said o ahead, son Get out of here All of you Supervised visitation is granted Your attorneys and I ork out the visitation details until I canon custody"
My chest swelled
Porter’s breath left him on a rush "Oh God Thank you so much"
"I don’t want to hear one word about you and Mr Boyd getting into any more hospital brawls"
"No, sir Of course not"
He sfor your boy"
"Thank you," Porter and I called in unison as we raced froether
"I love you," I whispered to my son as we surrounded hioofy smile on his face
The nurse had just slipped a little so into his IV to relax hiist to show up
Charlotte was standing besideover his chart for what had to be the tenth ti atfierce I could have overlooked it if he had been an ass just toCharlotte hell for over a decade, blaood and decent fiber of o ballistic each ti about le positive word she had said about h him like a razor blade
He was a dick There was no questioning that But we did have so in common
He loved my son
Our son
His son
Travis
Lucas
Whatever you wanted to call hiht then, just like I was, he was scared out of his fucking ery
I settled on the edge of the bed and lowered my voice so only Travis could hear me
"Hey, bud Can you do me a favor?"
He smiled toothy and wide "Sure, Dad"
I rested ave him a squeeze "Do you remember that tiaet your allowance for another week?"
"But they were on sale" He laughed
"Right," I whispered "They were on sale, so I gave you an advance on your allowance so you could buy them"
"Yeah," he drawled "That was so aweso, bud Brady and Charlotte love you a lot And I know you don’t necessarily love the if o in and get that new ticker of yours You know, just to ed "I could love her"
I sood to hear"