39 - Unpaid Efforts

Weston blinks slowly, eyebrows raising in surprise.

If Millan thought he looked confused before, it’s nothing compared to how he looks now.

“Wait… what? Back up a bit. Stella is your mother? Your biological mother? I thought she was your aunt?”

In all fairness, Millan should probably give Weston all the information before he expects him to form an opinion.

So that’s what he did.

He told Weston how his father forced Stella to carry his son and how she was forced to basically ignore Millan's existence all those years. Half way through the story, Millan lets his head rest on Weston’s chest again, finding that talking while staring at the woods is easier than when he’s directly looking at Weston.

That’s how, surprising himself, Millan goes further in telling the story than he’d planned.

Millan feels the need to tell