I pulled free.

“If I have a child out there growing up without a father, my life was already blown up five years ago — and not one person in this family had the decency to tell me.”

Chapter 10 — Twins

It took me almost a full day to run down Samantha’s address.

An old mutual friend finally gave it up, but not before making me explain, twice, exactly why I wanted it — which told me something about how the story of me had been told in the years I was gone.

When I called the number, I knew her voice on the first syllable.