Betrayed
“Because you needed a parent to sign the papers to be treated by the doctors, and I knew your mommy was at court, and I didn’t want them to wait. I lied to protect you and make sure you were cared for.”
“Oh, okay. So, you lied to the doctors to help me, and I lied to the kids at school to make them stop being mean to me. Is saying that you are my daddy not really a lie then?”
“It is sort of. If we were to go to court and ask the court to let me be your daddy, and a judge agreed, then it won’t be a lie, but we are not doing that, so it is like a lie,” Anton explained.