DAMON

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"Are you gonna leave too? Like Daddy did?"

I had the answer. It was one word and I'd have given it to anybody else without a second of thought. *No.* I'd built my whole life on saying the hard thing first and watching people scramble after it.

I couldn't get it out of my mouth.

Because the word he wanted was *forever*, and three hours ago his mother stood in a marble hallway and told me she'd been lying to me for weeks, and I didn't know anymore if the thing I'd promised this ...