Paige’s biological father had abandoned her and her mother when she was just a baby but she never imagined that history would repeat itself.
The day Paige married Adam was the happiest of her life. The two had met on their first day of grade school at the age of five and had gone from being best friends to falling in love, to being soul mates.
Paige never imagined there would ever be a day that she didn’t want to be with Adam, or he with her. She never imagined she would be standing alone on a curb with a baby in her arms, in the depths of winter with Adam’s screams of hate echoing in her ears.
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Paige stood there, her baby girl wrapped in her blanket, hunching her shoulders against the wind, and then something extraordinary happened. A car pulled up next to her, and the window opened.
The driver leaned forward in his seat. “This is no night to be out with such a tiny baby. Please, let me take you somewhere where you’ll be safe. Do you have family nearby?” he asked.
Paige bit her lips. There was something about this man that was familiar. She’d seen his face before. He might be a stalker, a criminal. She might be putting her baby in danger.
The man could see the doubts flitting across Paige’s face. “Please, I mean you and your baby no harm. If you’ll let me help you, I’ll explain everything.”
Reluctantly, Paige settled her baby in the back seat. “You have a baby seat,” she commented to the man. “Do you have children?”
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“No,” the man said. “I have a nephew.”
“Oh,” Paige said softly. “I have no one. My mom died seven years ago, then my dad got cancer…”
“That’s not easy,” the man said gently. “Losing everyone like that.”
“The worse was that my dad told me when he was dying that he wasn’t my biological father. My mom was pregnant when he met her. Her lousy boyfriend just ran out on her so my dad adopted me.
“He wanted me to look for that man, but I refused. Look for someone who didn’t want me? Never! I thought Adam and I were going to build a family, but I guess that’s another thing I failed at…”
“Your marriage…” the man asked. “What happened?”
“We met when we were so...
