The Arrogant Captain's Regret: Chasing My Ex-Wife

Norma

windy sidewalk, the dedicated medical phone in my

saw it was the SOS alert linke

d asthma, I had set up that emergency line years ago and kept i

rnal habit, my thumb pre

y voice blasted into my ear-with

of jet engines in the background. "Dad and Mommy Candice and I are boarding

ghtly, the tension

ant, Jaiden?"

and it's all your fault for making her u

nd hot cocoa waiting on the table the second we land! And make a pot of

the flight attendant for an ice pack, not bothering to sto

was hungry would have sent me rushing home thro

ical alarm just to order me around for his fath

d evenly. "And I'm not your maid. If you and your Mommy C

unned that his ever-obedient mother had just refused him

en we land, I'm gonna tell Dad to kick you out of

p the call, popped the SIM card straight out of the em

rived at Arthur Hayes's law fir

ight into a quiet, wood-pane

up his nose and slid two thick legal

the other was the Declaration of Permanent Surrende

vely. "Once you sign these and they are delivered to Bryant Norton, you forfei

pen, flipped to the signature pages of both documen

ooked up at him. "Did you

a thinner, confidential folder f

d: Permanent Waiver of Paternal Custod

to protect your baby gir

of her. However, under state law, this waiver can't take effect unilaterally. After you sign your

clause reading Complete Ex

inherited my medical talent-he wouldn't hesitate to use the child as a

der into my leather portfolio. Before my offboarding with the Bruins was over, I wou

and Jaiden's custody waiver into a heavy brown

lled out a Priority Overnight commercial waybill. Under the recipient line, I

ceipt, confirming the package would be placed directly on t

into the crisp winter air, I t

churned in my stomach. I grabbed onto a cold iron streetl

't afford to neglect this pregnancy. Pulling out my phone, I scheduled an early-morning appointm