All Chapters of After He Announced His Fiancée, I Left With My Son: Chapter 11

Kaelan settled at the border.He had no right to live in our home, so he rented an old house outside the settlement. Now and then, he repaired the school fence or brought the children books, and he always stopped working when Rowan passed.He no longer forced Rowan to call him Dad.But a title once lost did not return on its own simply because he had learned respect.In the first year Rowan avoided him.By the fifth year, he could greet Kaelan politely.By the twentieth year, Rowan had returned from his studies in the capital. He invited the whole village to a celebration but did not invite Kaelan. Kaelan still left a gift outside the door: the grass deer, repaired with silver vine.Rowan looked at it a long time and in the end put it away in a cupboard.He did not throw it away, nor did he go thank Kaelan.I did not interfere. Whatever was left between them was for the child to decide.My school continued to grow. The herb primers we created reached many border settlements, and more a