"You made your choice, James. The moment you laid in bed with that--" She stopped herself, closing her eyes tightly, a frustrated look on her face, so many emotions running through her and her anger building up again, "I gave you so many chances James. Time and time again when I called. When I emailed and texted. I even came to your house. I know you were home James, yet you still ignored me." She gave a frustrated sigh, burying her face in her hands. This wasn't fair. At all. She wasn't even sure if she could trust him to not hurt her daughter, and yet here she was considering it. She sighed heavily, looking back up at him, a slightly upset look on her for a moment before she put that cold mask back on her face and spoke again, "You do realize, if you hurt her, I will make sure you regret it for the rest of your sorry life."

Sitting up straight again and thinking about it hard for a moment before she glared at him once more, "One shot, James. ONE. But there are conditions. Until I can trust you to be around her, I will be present with every second you are with her. And you can't come see her just any time you want. You have to run the time and place by me first. You can't upset her in anyway. If I see her even the least bit upset thats it. And whoever you're with right now, I don't want to see her until much later. One new parent is enough for Lily, a step mom being brought into the picture would be too much for her for now." She crossed her arms, "And you're right. You don't deserve it. I shouldn't even be giving you this chance. So you better make it count."

Sighing, she stood up from where she sat and pulled her dirty blonde hair back into a pony tail as she spoke, more or less playing with her long hair, something she always did with she was nervous, worried, or upset, all of which applied at this moment. It was a habit that she had ever since she was child and one that many people had commented on before, since she never realized she did it until somebody said something about it, "How did you even find my house anyway? Where you stalking me or something?" It would explain how he found her in that store. And to be honest, it was scary to think about. What if she hadn't walked outside when she had? Would he have tried to take little Lily? Nothing could stop him. He was her father and because he had never been around neither had technical custody. There would be nothing she could do about it if he had taken her. 

That brought her to another thought. What if he tried filing custody for her? She knew she would never win in that battle. If the judges saw how behind she was on her finances, they would surely award custody over her to him. It scared her and she prayed it didn't come down to that. If it did, she would never forgive him, and she was sure neither would Lily.