Chapter 487

None of it made sense. He grew up believing she left them for another man—a rich man—but that wasn’t the case at all. She left because she wasn’t given a choice. In his father’s mind, her wanting a career meant that neither he nor Jonathon were enough. And in a sense he had been right, but it needn’t have been one or the other. Loretta wanted to augment her life, not replace it. Instead, his father had taken it as a rejection and poisoned Jonathon against not only his mother but women in general. All because of pride. His father had been too proud to admit that Loretta might need something else in her life. Now Jonathon had a choice to make too. Was he too proud to accept her back into his life? Was he too hurt by the past to forgive her and the Sophie’s Choice-type decision she had to make? If he was honest, Jonathon wished he’d never found out the truth. He loved his father and didn’t want to tarnish the memory of him, but the man denied him a mother. The man he worshipped withheld a