Chapter 24: Observation

Two Weeks Later

Omri/Leon

I was at the ice cream parlor where I was getting ice cream for my son, he is not my biological son, he is Carrie's son from one of her clients who knocked her up before I got there, so he is nine. He calls me dad and I have accepted him as my son, I think about my past life, and over the years it has hurt less. I missed my former wife and kids, and I miss Cayden and Michael and the rest of my family but there is no way out for me, they threatened to kill Halle and the kids if I didn't comply. The spell has a fail-safe, if I leave these lands, I will die, so I accepted my fate and hoped Halle and the kids were happy. Carrie wanted us to have a kid together but because I don't think we should have a baby in our position, she went on birth control.

I watched my son eat his ice cream before I got a message about a fight tomorrow night and I knew I needed to get a babysitter because Carrie always shows her support and will be in my corner. I trained her to figh