Stone Circle And I will sing a lullaby

She apologized but left him with little more than a moment to think she might amend her terms, and swear to right the situation by choosing him, and only him. And the children she was going to have, as there was no avoiding that. But she didn’t want that. She wanted all of them.

Family, to him, did not include a stranger. He closed his eyes and shook his head, uttering a soft, strained sound. This wasn’t what he wanted at all. He felt left behind even though she was promising him a place in her family- and she hadn’t even planned to expand her family, it had simply happened.

He felt like a puzzle piece that had been tossed in whichever box had been opened- only to be discarded every time it was discovered that he didn’t truly fit.