Chapter 22: He's Not a Child Nobody Wanted
Charles's POV
The cabin was quiet, the plane cutting through the air with a steadiness that seemed almost indifferent. I leaned back and closed my eyes, and Mia's face came to me unbidden.
She had died in the bathtub — wrists cut, lying in the water until someone found her, by which point it had g...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: "You're not done. You still have a way out of this."
2. Chapter 2: "Let Her In"
3. Chapter 3: "The bond between a mother and her child isn't something you can write into a contract."
4. Chapter 4: "Looking forward to working with you."
5. Chapter 5: The Mountain That Had Been Crushing Me
6. Chapter 6: "How Did You Do That?"
7. Chapter 7: There Is Only One of You in This World
8. Chapter 8: "If Only Mia Had Been Like That"
9. Chapter 9: I'm Better at This Than You
10. Chapter 10: Like a Handful of Quiet Light
11. Chapter 11: "This child is loved. This child is protected."
12. Chapter 12: You Dare Lecture My Wife
13. Chapter 13: That's What a Morrison Does
14. Chapter 14: *He Called My Name*
15. Chapter 15: "This Place Has a Temperature"
16. Chapter 16: "Emma and Klaib Look So Much Alike"
17. Chapter 17: I'll Lend You My Mom for a While
18. Chapter 18: *"That's the Garment's Problem, Not Yours"*
19. Chapter 19: *I Just Wore the Name for a While*
20. Chapter 20: You Just Have to Swallow It
21. Chapter 21: *Give It Back to You*
22. Chapter 22: He's Not a Child Nobody Wanted
23. Chapter 23: "Amanda Is My Mom"
24. Chapter 24: Love Is the One Thing That Stays
25. Chapter 25: He Didn't Hear You
26. Chapter 26: Mama
27. Chapter 27: I'm Sorry
28. Chapter 28: "Mommy!"
29. Chapter 29: Go Give Caleb a Surprise
30. Chapter 30: He's Got Someone in His Corner
31. Chapter 3: "She's my mom—Amanda. She's my mom."
32. Chapter 32: Find the thing that belongs to yo
33. Chapter 33: "He and I — Same Suffering"
34. Chapter 34: "Amanda. Mama. Cello."
35. Chapter 35: "Who Said That?"
36. Chapter 36: A Reckoning
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