My Daughter Passed Away Giving Birth, and I Raised Her Son Alone – 10 Years Later, a Strange Woman at Her Grave Said, ‘I Made Your Daughter a Promise. Now It’s Time You Knew the Truth’

I placed the photograph between us.

“You took care of Teagan?”

“For part of that day.”

“Then why did she give you this letter?”

“She was scared,” Trudy said. “She didn’t think she was going to die, Elizabeth. She was eighteen and about to have a baby.”

That mattered.

Teagan hadn’t written the letter because she knew she was leaving us.

She had simply been frightened.

Trudy continued.

“She told me that if something went wrong and the boy didn’t come, I should give the letter to you.”

I pointed to the photograph.

“Is that him?”

“I don’t know his name.”

“Then what do you know?”

Trudy swallowed.

“He came.”

I froze.

“What?”

“After Teagan died, I saw a young man near the maternity floor asking for her.”