Chapter 41

Melissa shook her head. "Me? What do I look like to you? A toddler? And there's no way you are going to take my son away from me."

"He's my son too. The one you've kept away from me for all these years. The first time I saw him was like an event of two strangers meeting. He said Hi to me and I could not respond to him because I was too shocked to even make a proper sentence."

Melissa sighed deeply.

"I know what I saw in you that made me fall in love with you, Melissa. But never in my wildest dreams would I have thought you would be this cruel, keeping my son away from me."

"I'm not the bad guy here, Damien so Please don't make me feel like one. A mother would protect her child at all costs and that is what I'm doing. I respect the fact that Ryan is your flesh and blood but until you solve your issues, there is no way I will allow him to be a part of this."

"Don't you trust me at all?" Damien asked, staring at her in disbelief.

Melissa said nothing.

"Someone came to your home to threat