Gary

I look at my phone. I just got off the phone with Riley, and again he isn’t coming home for Christmas, which is only a month away. I know it has nothing to do with money since our family has a private plane, and he would use it. I haven’t seen my son since he left for college in Australia. I still don’t understand why he chose to attend college so far away from his family. Our relationship wasn’t always strained. It wasn’t until he was old enough to understand why I didn’t want that damn girl in my house. I didn’t care that she was Melyssa’s daughter. I was excited when Melyssa told me she was pregnant and even more excited when we discovered she was having a girl. I had always wanted a daughter. All my excitement went down the drain when she was born. When I saw her full head of white hair and those bright sapphire blue eyes, I knew she wasn’t mine.

I knew that Melyssa had ended a relationship not long before we met again. I wasn’t mad at Melyssa because I knew she had no