What Is The Condition?

Seemingly not bothered by Kathleen's bewildered expression Shawn added, "I'll be most grateful though, if you can allow me to see them once in a while."

His voice carried the impression of someone who had surrendered to a superior power.

There was nothing forceful or authoritative about his words.

'These were his flesh and blood for Pete's sake.' Kathleen couldn't believe he left such a crucial decision for her to make.

If Joanne, his mother, had heard what he had just said now, she was sure she would have fainted from anger.

Shawn was the only heir of Joanne and Shawn's late father and hearing Shawn sounding unconcerned about the two children, she would have cursed him to death and without fail, blamed her for everything.

All the arguments Kathleen had spent the entire weekend piling up, dismantling and finally fine tuning before coming to see Shawn in case he demanded to take the children, became useless at the face of Shawn's concessions.