“I needed to support Noah,” she said.

“A cafe job wasn’t enough.

But it was more than that.

I thought that if I stayed close to Andrew’s family — if I was inside his world — maybe someday I would find something.

A letter, a record, some thread that could lead me back to him.

I never came here because of the money, Mr.

Whitmore.

I came because you were his brother, and this was the last place his name still meant something, and I had a son at home who deserved to know his father was alive.”