My Father Disowned Me for Adopting a Child Who ‘Wasn’t Really Mine’ – Four Years Later, He Broke Down in Tears When My Son Spoke to Him in the Store

I glanced at Caleb, but I was too shocked to speak.

My gaze drifted back to Dad.

Caleb noticed him then.

“No.” I couldn’t manage more than that.

“Why not?”

I looked down at my son.

I couldn’t tell him the whole truth — he didn’t deserve that kind of hurt — so I gave him a partial truth instead.

“He doesn’t accept my choice to be with you and your dad.”

Caleb nodded once, processing. Then he straightened his shoulders.

“Then I think I should tell him something.”

Before I could stop him, before I could even register what was happening, he walked straight toward my father.

My heart dropped into my stomach.

My father turned, confused at first, looking at this kid approaching him in the produce section.

Then he spotted me trailing behind Caleb, still trying to stop him, and Dad’s face went pale.

Caleb stopped in front of him and looked up, calm and steady.

Caleb didn’t answer that question.

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