Snippet #1694137

Gabe smiled knowing he was pestering Koda. It was worth it.

"Clearly you have not met my mother. And yes, I do need more. I want the baby to come with me for six months out of the year, to see my family, and to train with us. I will also require approval to visit once a month to see the child and weekly updates, pictures, so on and so forth. During the pregnancy I will be staying here in the background to insure your safety, and I will stay until the child is born, then I will leave back to Italy without the child for the first six months then after that, you will come personally to bring the child to me and then you may stay or come back here. These are my terms and I do believe they are fair. Contrary to popular belief I do not want to stay here and rule, I have my own organization to look after. This would be more of a joint custody thing unless you ask for more, but I will not push for anything other then those terms. Sound agreeable?"

He finished his food and leaned back in his chair.

"I just don't want to have a child to satisfy some obscure law and never see him or her again. I know the Delegates are all about child abandonment and all but that is not how I function."

He thought about how that sounded, it was a little harsh. The Delegates did normally turn their children over to training at a very young age, a practice that Gabe didn't exactly approve of.

"That came out wrong, I am just afraid of never seeing my child because he is in training or worse someone kills him in training. The delegates are very well known for their intense training, and many children don't make it through. I do think a child with this parentage would be very strong but I hear there is a little uprising amongst the group. I'm sure you can imagine my concern."