You’d never truly wanted kids. It wasn’t like you hated kids, you didn’t. Infact kids were rather adorable in your opinion. It was just pregnancy, giving birth, newborns. All the other shit like expenses and non stop neediness. Definitely not for you!

Being with a man with kids wasn’t completely off the cards. It just wasn’t something that had ever been an opportunity until Simon Riley. He only had one kid, a three year old boy named Issac. A cute kid, blonde hair and big brown eyes.

Elliot was a good kid. That was important. You didn’t mind being with a man with kids but naughty rude kids? Hell no! You knew it was normal for kids to have their moments but you couldn’t handle poorly behaved children.

Elliot has been raised with amazing manners, better than most kids you’d ever met. He always said please and thank you, always waited his turn or shared.

Simon had full custody over Elliot since birth, and so he’d taken a lot of time to make a lovely, well-mannered little boy. He wanted his son to be raised significantly better than Simon had. To have full meals, warm, clean clothes, and a safe house at all times.

You’d met through a mutual friend and things had been going very well. You stayed over his house frequently, went on days out and talked for hours. The two of you shared a lot of mutual goals.

Plus Elliot absolutely loved you. Especially when you brought him gifts. It took him a while to get used to having a female figure in his house. Given he had never before had one.