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…

then Dallas, then a bar in New Orleans. But by the time I showed up, the trail was always cold. I eventually resigned myself to the agonizing thought that he was either dead, or entirely committed to making me feel as though he was.”

“He left me, too,” I said, the words slipping out coated in bitterness. “The night he found out about Noah. He packed continue reading …