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“And what did you do? You hurt me anyway.” Mia’s eyes were glassy as she glanced away from me. “I want you to end it with her.”
“Then I’ll do it.”
The words hurt me to say. It felt like I was ramming a knife through my chest, but my daughter was the only family I had left. I wasn’t going to alienate her. If breaking up with Georgia was what it took to keep my daughter in my life, then that is what I had to do.
“You’re too old for her. What the hell happens when you get even older? Will she spend the last good years of her life changing your diaper?” Tears tracked down Mia’s cheeks. “And what about you? Are you going to spend the next few years trying to keep up with someone as young and ambitious as Georgia?”
As much as I hated to admit it, Mia was making all the points that had spent the last several weeks circling through my mind. I knew that there was no way I would be able to keep up with Georgia forever.
That was supposed to be a problem when we got older.
“Break up with her, Dad. She’ll move on from this and find someone her age. You’ll find someone too.”
I knew what I had to do as Mia got up and walked out of the kitchen.
It would break my heart to do it, but it was clear that things between Georgia and I would only reach a point where breaking up was necessary.
I didn’t want to be another man who held her back like her ex. I wanted to see her get everything that she wanted out of life.
I didn’t want to lose my daughter either.
Though I would suffer, seeing both of them flourish was worth it.
Sighing, I got up from the table and paced around the kitchen. Finally, after a few minutes, I turn the oven off and head to my car.
Georgia and I are going to have to have this conversation eventually. So it’s better if I get it over with now.
At least, that’s what I keep telling myself as I drive to her apartment. I drummed my fingers on the wheel, trying to release some of the tension coiling through my body.
As I walked to her door, I reviewed what I would say.
However, when she opened the door and I saw her tear-stained cheeks, everything I thought I would say flew out of my head. All I could do was stare at her.
“So?” Georgia asked, her voice breaking slightly as she looked up at me. “Do you think she’s ever going to forgive us?”
“I think she’ll move on in her own time, but you and I need to talk.”
Understanding flashed through her eyes as she held the door open a little wider. I stepped inside, my heart pounding against my ribcage.
“This is the part where you tell me it’s you and not me, right?”
I chuckled slightly, even though I felt like screaming. “Something like that, I guess.”
Georgia bit her bottom lip briefly before leading the way to her living room. She curled up in an armchair, leaving me on the couch. I felt a lump rising in my throat as I sat. It threatened to choke me.
“This isn’t what I want to be doing, but my daughter has to come first,” I said. I clasped my hands together to keep them from shaking. “If I thought there was a way to make this work without hurting Mia more, I would do it.”
“I know.” Georgia’s hand drifted down to her stomach. “Did you tell her about the baby?”
There was no way I could look at her as the guilt took hold of me. I shook my head and looked down at the ground.
“I couldn’t. Not with how upset she was.”
Georgia gave a sharp intake of breath. “Alright. Well, I don’t know what more there is to say then. I love you, but Mia must come first for you.”
“I’ll tell her about the baby when right.” I sighed and shook my head. “This never would have worked. You and I are in two very different places in our lives. Both of us need different things, and right now, I don’t feel like I’m in the position to give you what we need.”
“And how do you know that?”
