After delivering a baby for a lonely mother, the doctor looked at the newborn’s face and dropped his instruments in shock. He stared into the baby’s distinct amber eyes and whispered, “where is the woman who brought you here?” The mother pointed to her bag, revealing an old photograph that solved a twenty-year-old mystery…

back, both of them giggling wildly.

“I almost didn’t let you,” I confessed quietly.

“I am well aware.”

“I was terrified that your help was a Trojan horse. That there was a hidden price tag.”

Robert slipped the photograph of his late wife into his breast pocket and looked at me with profound fondness. “In this world, there usually is.”

I nodded slowly. “But continue reading …