Chapter 1

After discovering my CEO husband can't let go of his divorced single-mother ex, I started teaching our son to call him "uncle."

When our son had a fever and his ex called him away in the middle of the night, I touched our son's burning forehead and had him say "goodbye, uncle."

When he promised to attend our son's parent-teacher conference but his ex called crying about how her son had no father to accompany him, my husband left without a second thought.

I didn't even look up. I handed our son my phone and had him send the teacher an excuse email on behalf of "uncle."

Every time, our son hesitated for so long.

Until later, when my husband finally realized what he owed us.

He took the initiative to suggest we take family photos together.

At the entrance of the photo studio, the ex called again, sobbing on the phone:

"Evan, can you come pick up Tanner from kindergarten right now? The other kids are making fun of him for not having a dad..."

Reluctance flashed across my husband's face.

He was about to crouch down and explain to our son.

This time, without any prompting from me, our son waved him away.

"It's okay, uncle. You go be with your other kid. Mom and I are enough for a family photo."