you.”
“Fair.”
“Sometimes I walked away.”
“Also fair.”
He smiled.
“Never imagined you’d become my father when I was almost seventy.”
I looked at him.
“I wasn’t your father when you needed one.”
“That wasn’t your choice.”
“No.”
“But now?”
He waited.
I placed my hand against the glass.
“Now is.”
Samuel slowly placed his palm against the other side.
Nothing erased the past.
But the future does not require erasure.
Only choice.
Rachel changed her surname.
Not to Grant.
Not to Kerr.
She chose Rachel Hale.
“Hale was my adoptive grandmother’s name,” she explained.
“She was the first person who ever made me feel safe.”
Samuel understood.
Leah kept Morgan.
She returned to nursing after recovering pieces of her memory.
Calvin visited her often.
At first, Melissa found that strange.
Then one afternoon, she told me something I didn’t expect.
“I hope they figure it out.”
“You mean Calvin
