Fifteen years after our divorce, I found my ex-wife living beneath a bridge with one leg missing. When I tried to help her, she looked at me and said, “You already abandoned us once.”

“Doctor, you had a son,” the secretary said quietly. “His name was Sawyer Fields.”

Alistair looked at the date of death and felt his heart break.

The boy died when he was only ten years old at a construction site owned by the Crestview Clinic.

And the signature that hid the accident belonged to his own mother, Katie Carpenter.

Alistair sat back, terrified of what he was about to find out.

PART 2

Alistair read the papers until the sun came up. Sawyer was born eight months after the divorce. On the birth certificate, the father’s name was blank. Nellie raised him alone in a tiny room in a poor neighborhood. She worked early mornings cleaning train stations and collected cardboard in the afternoon to get money.

There were school photos too. Sawyer had the same small spot next to his eyebrow as Alistair. His smile looked just like Alistair’s late father.

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