Twelve Months Later, Ethan Came Back With a Sleeping Newborn and a Broken Suitcase

“She packed all this into the suitcase before my father could throw it out,” he said.

“She knew he was clearing out Valerie’s things.”

I asked him how he had actually found the baby.

I asked if Chloe knew where the agency was.

“No,” Ethan said.

“He used a temporary foster service in the city.

Chloe only knew the name of the parent company he hired when he emptied the nursery.”

I stopped sorting the pile of medical bills.