"I think... I think I was so in love with the idea of saving myself that I didn't realize I was letting myself drown. "

"And now?"

"And now you're my lifeboat."


It was only meant to be a favour. Only meant to be for a few weeks. 

Yet when Stryker Odello finds himself a Daddy for a scarred little boy, he finds the darkness that swamped his life cracking and splits of light shining through.

High functioning alcoholic at best, meeting the needs of the little proved more challenging than he first anticipated. 

Broken and distrustful, getting through to Jamie Sinclair was a hard feat.

Both damaged from the past, hurt and cautious, could they learn to let go and figure out how to love again? 

Or was life's only joy to direct a tragedy?

His Little Boy

Stryker didn't know how to make it better. He grasped at thin airs for ideas on how to ease the Littles woe but he came up blank.

So with no way to fix it, he saw no option but to dig his hole deeper.

/"A few weeks,/" he whispered. Jamie stiffened, his whimpering momentarily ceasing. It ramped itself back up as thunder struck again but shushed itself as soon as it had passed. /"A few weeks, that's all this was supposed to be. Kernal couldn't cope with the amount of Littles he had been left with and asked me to take one. It was only supposed to be short term. Three weeks, tops./"

The look that morphed Jamie's face was almost enough to have him biting his own tongue off and swallowing the sucker so that he didn't have to utter another word. He didn't. Kernal was right. Jamie had the right to decide for himself what he wanted, but he needed all the facts to do that.

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