"He doesn't think of it as—"
"I know he doesn't," I said. "That's what I said about my mother with the grocery shopping and the hospital visits. I know they don't think of it as a burden but something they want to do.But I'm not just managing their experience of it. I'm managing my own experience of what I've needed from everyone." I paused. "I need this one to be mine for a while longer. My research, my call, my understanding of what I'm facing. Before I hand it to someone else's competence."
Lucian looked at me steadily and nodded his head.
"That makes sense, it was the same way I felt when I had Lake. I was told to give him up, that a woman was more suitable, that he would cramp my lifestyle and a single father wasn't what ladies were looking for. It's not the same, but the same feel
