When we returned, I stood and told the judge I did not want to punish a seven-year-old for what adults had done. I asked that the agreement be voided and the support recalculated fairly for the two children I knew were mine, and that nothing in the record keep me from Theo’s life.
Judge Hargrove studied me for a long moment and said that in thirty years he had rarely heard a man ask for less than he was owed. Delphine wept and said she was sorry. I did not forgive her in that room, but I did not hate her either.
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