Except something about his face felt strangely familiar.
Then Thomas said,
“This man was your biological father.”
He paused.
“And he did not die before you were born, as your mother was told.”
Astrid gasped.
Thomas looked directly into the camera.
“He is still alive.”
Then he revealed the final detail.
“And Hannah, you already know him.”
The video ended.
Before either of us could move, someone knocked three times on my apartment door.
Astrid stared at me.
Nobody knew we had come here.
Then a familiar male voice called from the hallway.
“Hannah? Open the door.”
Every muscle in my body went rigid.
I knew that voice.
It belonged to the man I had called Dad my entire life.