Morningside Cuesta hehe the sun

Day gave her nose a placating lick, not wanting her to feel bad for him. Sunny and Dawn were the best kids he could've asked for, even if things were difficult at times. What he really wanted was to go back with them, and to raise them the way they deserved to be raised, but it didn't bear saying to Akuti. She had her own pains to feel.

"I oughta focus on the ones I have," he told her. "And... I don't know if a do-over is in the cards for me. There's too much in my heart to ask for a woman to deal with, and it's hard enough to split what heart I've got between the two kids I already have."

I've got baggage, is what he meant, but that, too, did not bear saying.