Not Every Man Deserves To Be A Dad

Kira was indignant. She clenched her fist. ‘What a jerk!’ ‘That’s it? That’s the best you got for what he did?’ Kira searched her vocabulary. ‘Bastard?’ ‘You don’t know how to cuss, do you?’ ‘Uh, a-hole? SOB?’ ‘Forget it.’ Austyn smiled and patted her hand. It wasn’t a pleasant memory, but her reaction amused him. ‘Liam came to live with us when he was ten. You weren’t wrong when you called him a bastard, you know, in the literal sense of the word. He hated that, hated the fact that he was born out of wedlock, that he couldn’t call the man Dad. I guess he blamed it on me. He would pick a fight with me every chance he got. Whatever I had, he wanted as well.’ ‘That’s so…’ Kira groped for the right word. Selfish? Mean? Spiteful? Kira wasn’t sure. All she knew was, Liam’s anger seemed misdirected. Austyn was just a boy back then. It was their father who made Liam a bastard child, not Austyn. ‘I was older than him,’ Austyn said. ‘His little games didn’t work on me. He hated me, and I have t