Chloe felt her knees almost give out.
For ten long years, she had pictured that exact moment.
She had practiced it in her mind while crying in silence, scrubbing dishes, waiting at bus stops, and counting coins to buy diapers.
But nothing could have prepared her for hearing Leo ask that question while standing in front of his grandparents.
Thomas couldn’t take his eyes off the photograph.
Beatrice wept softly.
“Yes, sweetheart,” Chloe said, lowering herself to her knees in front of Leo. “His name was Ethan Vance. And yes, he was your father.”
Leo swallowed hard.
“Did he know about me?”
Chloe shut her eyes for a brief second.
“No. He vanished before I ever got the chance to tell him.”
Thomas tightened his grip on the back of a chair.
“Ethan Vance…”
His voice sounded as though he were speaking the name of someone already dead.
“You knew him,” Chloe said.
“He was an intern at the plant,” Thomas murmured. “Brilliant boy. Stubborn as hell.”
Beatrice turned toward her husband.
“Why did you never speak about him?”…
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