Lily
I couldn't believe I was doing this—giving away a perfectly good thing, my son, to her...Courtney. With how she had treated me over the years, recently too, she didn't deserve this kindness from me really.
But no matter how I looked at it, how many times I thought about it, I couldn't take it back, even if I wanted to. The moment I pictured Adrian as a sad, brooding teenager in our home, hating the place, feeling like a prisoner in it, because he didn't like the family that lived there, I knew I couldn't take him away from Courtney.
I decided I would give him a chance to be happy and choose to be a family with us. And Courtney could be many things, but to that little boy, she was simply his mom. A loving mom. There was no doubt about that. The pictures had said it all. There was
