A Flight Delay Stranded Me at O’Hare, Where I Found the Ex Who Vanished Six Years Ago Asleep Against a Wall With Two Little Boys Who Had My Eyes — Then My Mother Appeared With a Lawyer and a Folder, and Inside It Was a Letter Renouncing My Own Children, Signed With a Signature I Never Wrote

“Your mother never told you.

Did she.”

Chapter 5 — Are They Mine

It took me a few seconds to find any voice at all.

“Told me what?”

The older boy had opened his eyes now too, and he was watching me with an expression so familiar that my chest physically hurt.

“Their names are Micah and Toby,” Sabine said, quiet.

“How old are they?” “Five.” I went down onto my knees on the cold airport floor, level with them.