She chose to ignore his muttering as if she had not heard it. Yes, that was the real reason behind everything, but it wasn't something she would acknowledge outright, even knowing that he had to know what a good chance there was at this point of her staying away permanently. It was really just an uncomfortable subject and as prepared as she was to consider the possibility, it was not a decision she was willing to definitively make.
Yet.
"I already have welcomed him into the family as fully as I possibly can," she shot back, although not meaning to put quite as much passion in her tone as it had carried. It was just a topic that she had never been fine with, especially when it came to Grayson's insistence on barely acknowledging his son's existence.
Forcing herself to bring it back a notch, she merely frowned at him. "By all means, I consider him my son in everything but law, and you should know that is very much in part because his father refuses to do so," she said pointedly. "Any attention I show him beyond what I show Anya is much due to feeling a need to make up for what you won't give him."
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