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"Please," Kingsley said "You can tellI walked with hiht he would die," Grace said, picking up a blanket and folding it neatly "He and I talked He toldabout Nora and how it had cosley said "Even Fionn"

"I wonder if he was thinking of it then, what Magdalena had said about hi I want to believe it did"

"You gave us hope that otten to me in time I can’t think about it Destiny or not, you earned your son"

"As soon as I came home to Zachary I told him what had happened, what I’d done And when I found I was pregnant, I had a feeling A few months after he was born, I looked at hisley looked at a photograph sitting on a side table--one of Zachary holding Fionn in his ar utterly contented

"Zachary loves Fionn Fionn is his son in every way that ood father It hurts to say, and I’ll only say it to you--but as lad I didn’t know about hirown Nico’s perfect I couldn’t have done a better job raising hi a father to Nico when he was growing up?"

"Soret it for him I don’t think I was ready to be a father until recently I had too much unfinished business Nico deserved better than I could have given hiood man and loved hi He toldAnd that’s all I can ask"

Grace took a ragged breath and sed

"It’s hard," she said "I don’t want to hurt sley shook his head "He knows his father Zachary’s his father"

"He is But still"

"I understand I have a twenty-five-year-old son I didn’t meet until this year If anyone understands, it’s me"

When Nora had told him about Nico, about the son he’d never dreamed he had, he’d been rent in two by the opposite eret that he only found out noenty-five years after the fact

"That must have been hard for you," Grace said "All those years lost"

"They were only lost toNico had a father in his life who loved hiood man The comfort to me in all this Nico Fionn That’s who matters in this"