“I won’t ask you to become someone you are not,” Emma said. “I won’t ask you for warmth you don’t have. But I need the truth. Did Daniel’s father know I was Clara’s daughter?”Get Parenting Tips
Margaret’s eyes moved to the letter in Emma’s hand.
“Yes,” she whispered.
The word landed softly.
Then shattered everything.
I looked at my father’s photograph again.
A man with secrets.
A man with intentions.
A man who had somehow written to the woman I would one day marry before I ever met her.
“How?” I asked. “How could he know Emma would come into my life?”
“He didn’t know she would marry you,” Margaret said. “He only knew Clara’s daughter had been placed somewhere unsafe after Rose fell ill. He tried to find her before he died.”
Emma pressed a hand to her mouth.
