He listens to him, feeling his heart break with every word. It would be so easy to leave with him and start their lives together alone, but that would never work. “You know Betty is a good nurse. She really is. When she started here, nobody paid her much attention. She was just there. Things would get done, and nobody ever paid any attention to how. They only simply paid attention to the fact it was done. Then one day she was sick, and she couldn’t come to work. It was crazy here. Suddenly we saw all the things Betty had been doing, taking on, and helping us with. Sometimes you just don’t notice something, or someone, until they’re not there. All the good things they’ve done are gone, and you’re worse off because of it. Kaden,” he told him, lifting his hand to his lips to kiss. “If you go, so much of you, about you, will be missed, and you will not be hole. It doesn’t matter that Mason is a good guy, or that he has Jareth and Kevin. You are a father. Two of those children are yours’, and they need you. You need them, and if I run away with you, I won’t have all of you, and baby I want all of you. So no, you can’t leave. Not for good at least. I do want you to take Callie and go. She needs to be trained, and as much as I would love to go and watch you work, I can’t. I can’t travel yet, but you, you need to go and do this. So please baby, tell me you will, for your sake.”
‘No. I don’t have a clue where she would go. Kaden can’t know. Please don’t tell him. He’s got enough on his mind.’
The driver kept going, taking her closer and closer. She couldn’t wait to get there. It had been a while. She couldn’t wait to see what being there would make her feel.