“Mom, is he the man in that old picture in your desk?”
Several guests quietly looked away.
I nodded.
“Yes, sweetheart.”
Willa turned back toward Conrad.
“Then you’re our dad?”
His fiancée removed her hand from his arm.
Conrad’s face went pale.
“I… I didn’t know about you.”
Parker immediately asked,
“Didn’t Mom tell you?”
Conrad glanced at me.
There are moments when someone realizes the version of the past they have repeated for years can no longer survive.
This was one of them.
“She told me she was expecting,” he admitted.
Miles frowned.
“So you knew there was a baby.”
Conrad swallowed.
“I didn’t believe her.”
Audrey’s expression shifted.
She was usually the quietest of the four, but whenever something felt unfair, she had a remarkable ability to become fearless.
“Why wouldn’t you believe our mom?”
Conrad had no answer.
