“I wanted you to understand. That night, I walked out into a storm with nothing but two lives inside me. You had money, power, everything—but you were the one who chose to lose your family.”
She placed two envelopes on the table—Caleb and Micah’s birth certificates.
The line for “Father’s Name” was blank.
“They don’t need a man who saw them as obstacles. They need a future. And I am enough.”
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