“Dad, I’m eighteen now. I don’t know whether you remember me, but I’m going to college soon. Before I begin this new chapter, I just wanted to meet you once. I promise I won’t ask for anything. I only want to know why you never wanted me.”
Tears filled my eyes.
Then I noticed Ben’s reply.
“I have a new family now. Please don’t contact me again.”
I looked at him.
“You sent this?”
He nodded.
“Three weeks before Evelyn was born?”
“Yes.”
I stepped backward.
Now his reaction at the hospital made sense.
It wasn’t Evelyn’s appearance that had frightened him.
It was his guilt.
He had spent years wishing for another baby while deliberately rejecting the daughter he already had.
And when Evelyn was born, he could no longer pretend otherwise.
But I wasn’t finished.
“Why are you suddenly so desperate to see Evelyn?”
