I Want You Back by Meminger
Chapter 61

Chapter 0061

Laura

Annie is not your daughter and never was.

Those words were harsh and as painful as sharp daggers stuck in the heart. That statement was merciless, deadly, and unscrupulous, it was even inhumane to say that to a father, but it was necessary. After everything I had done to win his heart in the past and all the effort I had put into that relationship to create a healthy and loving home for our future children, Jason had destroyed everything so easily because of his silly feelings and because of his selfishness and arrogance.

He had destroyed everything without even thinking twice; he had ended everything and made me suffer; he had made Annie and I suffer when we went through countless difficulties. It was his fault for everything Annie and I had been through. I had to turn around an do my best for my daughter in a dangerous and sexist world. I had raise my daughter alone and protect her tooth and nail against everything and everyone. Furthermore, I had to do this alone in th absence of a father for my daughter. So Jason doesn’t come in today and wants to blame me because he just doesn’t know what he’s

talking about.

“That’s all a thing of the past,” he said after a while. “I know I’ve wronged you in the past, and you’re tired of knowing how sorry I am for my actions.”

“You may be sorry, Jason. Regret is always good, but unfortunately, we can’t escape the consequences of our mistakes,” I stammered.

He was looking at the floor. “I know that not knowing about my daughter’s existence was a consequence of my mistakes, believe me, I am paying for this sin in the worst way, Laura. But I just met her, the

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last thing I want is to be away from her right now,” he said, sounding sincere.

I adjusted myself in the chair and swallowed hard, even though my throat wasn’t dry. “What do you want?” I asked.

“I want her, I want my daughter. I want to have the chance to be by her side from now on; I want to make up for a lost time; I want to see her grow; I want to follow every step of her life from now on,” he said. without blinking.

“For what?”

“Because I’m her father.”

“No, Jason. You are not her father. The fact that you are her

progenitor does not mean that you are her father. Annie could have

taken your traits-the color of your eyes, your skin, your mannerisms, your quirks, and even your damn allergies-but she’s not your daughter. What that girl knows about her life is that she has a mother, and she has Ricky, who is her father figure. I’ve been struggling Jason. I have done everything to raise my daughter in a kind of perfect bubble where she is happy with her mom and dad. Li I’ve been working hard to make sure she never sees me sad or because she’s too young to know how stupid and terrible this wo and that nothing is perfect. So don’t you dare show up in her life a corrupt what she knows as truth; don’t you dare show up and destr her; don’t you dare traumatize her like you traumatized me!” I threw those words at him in anger.

I just hated him so much for all that. Did he think he could show up after all this time and try to play the hurt, the suffering, the victim who wanted to reconcile with his daughter? He simply had no idea what Annie and I had gone through to get to this point.

“I know there’s nothing I can do or say that will reverse the past,” he

tried.

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“Oh, but there really isn’t,” I said, shaking my head and feeling a lump form in my throat. What he was asking was inconceivable. Who did he think he was to want to be present in my daughter’s life?

“I know I don’t deserve Annie, Laura. You’re right when you say that in the past I wouldn’t have even wanted to know about this child’s existence, but time passed and things changed, Laura. I changed, and I regretted the things I did in the past-those wrong decisions I made that separated us and left us in this whole dilemma. Laura, I have regretted every day of my life for what I did, I wronged you bitterly. I know very well that I don’t deserve her, and I don’t deserve your forgiveness, but even so, I still insist,” he said.

“And what will happen if I refuse, Jason? Are you going to let me just walk away with my daughter and never appear in front of her again? Are you going to leave her alone if I refuse? Are you going to do that?” I sarcastically asked him, and he didn’t answer. I chuckled and wiped the tear from the corner of my eye. “It doesn’t matter what I say, Jason, because you just won’t leave me alone. I know you’ll do anything to win custody of Annie, even though you don’t dese You are rich and powerful, you will be able to manipulate, bribe even threaten anyone if necessary until you can take my daughte away from me. That’s exactly what you plan to do, Jason.” A tightness formed in my heart. Just knowing that this man had enou power to take my daughter away from me terrified me.

“No, you’re wrong. I don’t want to take Annie away from you, by God, you’re her mother, Laura,” he said, and then did something that surprised me, he knelt in front of me. “I don’t want to take Annie away from you. I want to ask your permission to be present in her life, Laura

There was a strong emotion of sadness and helplessness in his expression, it was as if he were completely broken. “I have nothing, I am nothing. I’m alone. I have no one. Annie is emerging as a hope for my meaningless life, Laura. Annie is like a rope thrown at me to pull me out of the depths I’m in. That’s why I’m begging you; I don’t want

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to lose her now that I’ve found her; I don’t want to lose her as I lost

you.”

There were tears in Jason’s eyes, and as he cried, I realized I had never seen him cry before. He was haggard, looking tired and broken as he begged for it. I sniffled, wiping away my tears, and went back to drinking my wine. Jason Davies was on his knees in front of me, crying and begging me to permit him to be close to my daughter.

I didn’t know what to think or what to say, it was happening too fast. The only thing I knew was that I needed to stay alert and not believe him, because how was I going to believe a man who made me suffer so much?

“I just… It’s late, I need to sleep,” I said at the end.

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