Re: quicklog, hotel: graham & jake
[No, Graham wasn't giving up. He couldn't ever give up on his kids, not either of them. But he was just coming to see, maybe, that he could never get Jake to understand the way he wanted. Didn't mean he was calling it quits. The boy could hate him from now till his dying day and it wouldn't change a damn thing. If his son ever changed his mind, ever decided he wanted to come stay with the man he refused to call father, his door would be open. Always. And he'd always be his father, too.]
No. And that ain't what I thought. [He frowned, but caught himself and tried to ease up some.] It's real complicated. And like I said, it wasn't intentional. She says she don't want to see the baby, but I don't think that's true. Ain't about not wanting her. S'just... complicated. Don't know how else to say it. [He hesitated. Jake needed Clem, needed somebody to lean on. But he'd find out the truth, yeah? Sooner or later. Maybe Clem should tell him that herself, though.] Your Aunt Clem, she knows about Joy. The baby. You ask her about it. She can probably explain better.