Chapter 68: LAW

They were mine to protect, to love, to shield, to shelter. It was a frightening and sobering thought and yet it filled me with such strength, a different kind of strength; an inhuman strength that made me feel like I could move mountains.

They were both so perfect, my wife and child. An unexpected gift that I will never stop being grateful for. I held his little fingers on one of mine and smiled down at his questioning look. Already giving me shit, just like his mother.

"Hey buddy, sorry, didn't mean to disturb you." He went back to eating and wrapped his little fingers around mine and I felt that shit in my heart. "He has a nice strong grip look at that; he knows I'm his daddy."

He should! She'd had me talking to him while she was carrying him because we'd read in one of the million books the women have floating around here that it was good for him.