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…

devastating I almost had to look away.

But I didn’t hand my son over.

Not that day. And maybe not ever, unless Logan proved he could survive the gauntlet I was about to lay down.

Chapter 5: Proving Ground

Over the agonizingly slow crawl of the next few months, Logan actually tried.

Initially, his efforts were clumsy, desperate, and entirely inconsistent.continue reading …