Rejected and Pregnant I Fled The Pack
"Twenty-three years, Robert. Birthdays, first steps, whatever difficult moments she navigated growing up with someone as unstable as Genevieve apparently proved to be. I missed all of it."
"You can't change that," my father said gently. "But you can actually choose to be present now, genuinely and consistently, for whatever time remains ahead."
"I intend to," Marcus said, something fierce and determined entering his tired voice. "Whatever it takes, however long it requires to actually earn her trust given everything she's likely been told about our family, about why we apparently abandoned her—"
"We didn't abandon her," my father corrected gently. "We simply didn't know she existed. That's a