Darker London

Peter hadn’t seen his kids, aside from wonderful Tasha who had been beside him almost every day, in nearly two weeks. Sometimes that hurt so much it felt like a physical ache in his chest. He wanted to keep the young ones from seeing him like this, however and Lydia was the child of two addicts and had lost her birth mother to addiction. Peter didn’t really want to make her fear losing her father as well.

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