You ate that up. Very interesting and made me read everything you wrote.
Let’s not forget ML’s mom. Even if FL told the truth early on, the mom might be f’d up enough to decide to just take the daughter and ruin the mom & grandma. Hell, in her mind the ML could be capable of doing that himself - she’s been trying to assess her baby daddy’s real personality post brain damage & how different he’s become since 7 yrs passed before revealing the truth. Her reasons for keeping that info close to her chest are legit which may also explain why she wasn’t surprised when the ML stopped talking to her.
Well of course the ML’s mom is the most messed up. Though from what I remember in the story, the FL’s reasoning for keeping the truth hidden before wasn’t because of the ML’s mom. She knows hardly anything about her, so she didn’t think it was a possibility. As for the ML, she may have thought that right after meeting him again, but then she resolved her mind that she was going to tell him because she believed he had the right to know. But she just put it on hold because she thought she didn’t have the right timing. Then after that the incident with the potential kidnapper. Now then her worries would be understandable but it’s also true that FL put it off for too long even before the kidnapper.
I’m not blaming FL for everything, just saying that she did have an opportunity to say the truth, as it’s always better to say it first before someone else does it and potentially makes it sound worse than it actually is.
Honestly it is understandable that the ML would be thrown off by the sudden info. Of course, the ideal reaction would always be “idc I’ll gladly take over as stepfather!” But realistically many ppl wouldn’t want to do that. I know tons of women who also wouldn’t want to be a stepmother. It’s also not great when the person you’re going to be dating hides the fact they have a kid. That’s happened to some girls where they meet this new guy and then find out he lied about not having any kids, and then had to deal with the baby mama issues, etc. There’s also people who don’t want any kids at all. Honestly wanting or not wanting children is a big deal breaker when it comes to pursuing a relationship with a partner.
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Anyways him asking for her to be looked into, could help more by finding out what happened after the accident. Since even if he asked the FL and she said so truthfully, she doesn’t know that much info that happened. It would help faster if he decided to look into the situation himself. Also ik ppl are gonna be mad that he decided to not communicate and ask her instead, but ngl she did keep it hidden to everyone she possibly could that she has a child. To some it would sound sus or not a big deal so the reason why she hid the child may seem sus. There’s also those typical other plots where FLs have the ML’s kid and whenever he asks, the FL always says that the kid isn’t theirs. There’s the possibility that if she kept important things hidden, she could always lie more about it. Honestly FL did have a lot of time to just tell him about their kid, but kept putting it off and now the truth came out in a worse situation.