Chapter 240

Chapter 240: Kaelen's POV

"Because you're not my son."

The words landed quiet. Final. Like a door closing on something I hadn't realized was still open.

I stopped breathing.

I stood there in the middle of his dining room with my hands at my sides and my heart trying to beat its way out of my chest, and I waited for him to take it back, to laugh, to tell me he was being cruel just for the sake of i