After Mason\u2019s 21st birthday, he asked Darla a question she never expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould you still have raised us if you\u2019d known the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n
Years earlier, Mason and his two brothers had moved in with Darla and their father, Kayden, after their mother died.<\/p>\n
Darla had planned to have a baby of her own with Kayden.<\/p>\n
But those plans disappeared.<\/p>\n
Kayden told her the grieving boys \u201cneeded all of her.\u201d<\/p>\n
What Darla didn\u2019t know was that Kayden had told the boys something completely different\u2014that she was perfectly happy with their family as it was.<\/p>\n
For years, Mason believed he and his brothers were the reason Darla never had a biological child.<\/p>\n
He even kept track of everything she did for him, secretly trying to repay a debt she never believed existed.<\/p>\n
Then came the hardest question.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Dad had told you the truth, would you still have chosen us?\u201d<\/p>\n
Darla held his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have chosen you,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I would have chosen only you.\u201d<\/p>\n
She loved raising them.<\/p>\n
She had also grieved the child she never got to have.<\/p>\n
When Kayden overheard the conversation, he finally admitted he had been afraid another baby would disrupt their fragile family.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t take motherhood from me,\u201d Darla told him. \u201cYou took away my chance to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then she told the boys something they desperately needed to hear:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never owed me anything for being raised and loved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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