As soon as he had been freed he ran over to Fiona's side and Gritzl was mainly background noise to him all but forgotten as Gritzl walked away.
"Will you be my mama?" asked the little one as he stared up at Fiona's face.
She caught a quick breath at the hesitancy in his voice.
The change that came over him after believing that he finally belonged to someone made Fiona's eyes water.
She wiped away a few tears, Fiona hadn't even had sex yet and everything seemed to be going wrong in her life right now but when she saw how the child stared at her.
Fiona simply nodded.
His dark hair stood up in the air like he got an electric shock, she smoothed it down with the palm of her hand.
The boys eyes initially widened with terror when he saw her hand reaching for him all he had known was violence from adults.
Who often slapped him when he got in their way or did some sort of mischief to get his basic needs met.
