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“Jonas, be reasonable. I know you hate me and will never forgive me. What I did was unforgivable. I’m a monster—like mother, like daughter, after all. But I assure you that I will never walk away from my baby. She’s already loved so much. You can just go on with your life without us,” she said.
“Buzz, I will never sign away my rights to my child.”
“But …” Her face drained of color right before his eyes.
“But nothing, Buzz. You thinking I wouldn’t want to be a part of her life makes me wonder if you even knew me at all. I may not get along well with my family, but I love them. And if you think for one moment that I’ll let you deprive me of knowing my child, you’re mistaken. I have rights, ones I will exercise if I have to,” Jonas replied, crumpling the paper on his desk and tossing it towards the garbage. It missed and bounced onto the floor.
Harrison stared at him and then grabbed Buzz by the arm, forcing her out of the chair and out of the room. Everything had just gotten completely out of hand, and Jonas wondered what was going to happen now.
“Harrison, you’re my lawyer!” he called after the man.
“Not anymore, Jonas. Now I’m part of her family, and as such, I will protect her from people like you,” his friend since college stated and slammed the door closed as they left.
When the door banged shut, the sound knocked something loose inside of him, or maybe it was the realization of what he did. He had just let the woman who he was in love with, who was carrying his baby, walk out of his office in pain and in fear. Because of him.
