Chapter 16

Donnie shakes his head. “I couldn’t imagine how hard it’d be to be away from your kids.”

“Me either, and I want them one day. When I’m settled with someone. I’d have to really trust someone before I had kids, and I kind of have trouble with that,” Jed finds himself admitting. He has told other people, but Donnie is easy to talk to.

“I don’t know if I want kids. My family life was screwed up. I’m not good at the whole family thing. But I think you’d be a good dad. I guess it’s hard to find someone you want to have kids with when you’ve got our kind of schedule.”

“You’re still young. You’ve got a lot of time to decide if you want to have kids,” Jed says.

Donnie frowns. “I just, I don’t know if I know how to be a parent. I didn’t have the best example.”

“You haven’t talked about your family much. Can I ask what happened?” Jed asks. He’s been wondering since Donnie explained that he had a big family that he didn’t talk to.