Alistair drove there fast. He found her in a crowded ward with an oxygen mask over her face, and when she saw him, she turned her head away.

“I’m not here to apologize just to feel better about myself,” he said, taking the chair beside her. “I’m here because I know the whole truth now.”

Nellie shut her eyes, and the tears came. “So you know your mother killed our boy.”

“I know she tried to take him. I know she hid the accident. And I know my own weakness let her do it.”

She looked at him with tired, furious eyes. “You left me the moment things got hard. When I lost the babies, you buried yourself at work. The day my mother died, you went to a business meeting.

By the time I was carrying Sawyer, you were already with Olivia.”