(Jason's POV)
I put the phone down and sit back in my chair.
Samuel.
I've been patient about Samuel. Deliberately, consciously patient, because he is Charlie's biological father. Like Caroline, I too want what's best for Charlie.
Though Samuel isn't worthy of being called a father, I understood — intellectually — that he still has the right to be in Charlie's life and that Charlie has the right to know him. He's not a territory to be managed but a child who will one day be old enough to understand every decision the adults around him make.
If that day comes, I don't want him to think of me as the man who separated him from his biological dad.
Still, my patience has a limit.
I find his number in my contacts — I keep it there the way you keep the number of a problem that might need ad
