Mara said she had contacted Julian after learning he and Chloe were expecting a baby through a family surrogate.
She wanted him to tell his new family about Sadie before the girl discovered her father's life through strangers online.
Julian accused Mara of blackmail, but Mara asked him to identify even one threat she had made about money.
He said nothing, and Chloe demanded that Mara explain why the mark on our newborn's back had terrified him.
Mara hesitated before explaining that Sadie had been born with a remarkably similar crescent-shaped mark beneath her shoulder.
She warned that resemblance proved nothing medically, but Julian had once called that mark the first thing he remembered about their daughter.
My stomach twisted when I realized that he had recognized an old photograph, not discovered some monstrous truth about this baby.
Mara told us that Sadie had needed medical evaluations as an infant, and Julian had disappeared when those visits became difficult.
