Tears streamed down my face.
My daughter was alive.
And she had become a mother herself.
“Then why did Daniel tell me you wanted me to have a baby with you?”
Richard closed his eyes.
“Because I told him I wanted another child to become part of this family. I meant Lily. I wanted to bring her into our home, if her mother agreed. But Daniel was terrified that the truth would come out.”
I could hardly believe what I was hearing.
“So he deliberately told me something that horrible?”
“He hoped you would become furious, leave him, and never discover the child.”
I felt my shock turning into anger.
“Then why have you decided to tell me now?”
Richard pointed to the medical records.
“Lily’s mother—your daughter—found information about her birth. She already knows who you are. And she asked me to give you this letter.”