She shook her head. "I don't want anyone to stop loving or supporting Teddy. That was never--" She swallowed tightly, her face growing hot again as her eyes watered. Just the idea that she could be capable of something like that - it was a punch to the gut. "I know how much our family means to him. I would never let anyone hurt him because of something like this. He's as much a member of the family as I am." As incredibly painful as it was for her, pitting the family against one another would only make things infinitely worse, and the idea of it - the reality of it, considering the events of the night before - only made her on the verge of tears all over again.
"I didn't. I would never. All I ever wanted was for Teddy not to bring the baby around his - his - her. I thought - when I said I wanted him supervised, I thought - I didn't know if it was really him. I'd just gotten here, and then all the sudden my parents were younger and he was with - he wasn't with me, and he said things that didn't - that didn't - and I just wasn't sure. I didn't know."