The Folder My Father Left
Fenella convinced me to stay away, told me the boy was yours.
She said if I ever tried to reach you she’d tell the world I’d threatened her, and I was too afraid to fight her.
But Fergus deserves to know I exist. — Dell Pratt. Fergus sank onto the metal bench, folding over as if he’d been struck.
“My father wasn’t my father.” “Emlyn raised you as his son,” I said.
“Because she lied to him!” Fergus choked.
“She built my whole life on it.”