After Losing Her Husband, a Woman Learned from a Nurse That Another Woman Had Been Visiting Him for Several Weeks – A Few Days Later, the Visitor Came to Her House and Said, ‘So You Don’t Know What He Left You, Do You?’

That stopped me.

Jack almost never talked about those years.

“You knew him as a kid?”

“Yes.”

“I work with families and children moving through the system.”

“Was that why you were at the hospital?”

“I was helping him locate Ethan and understand what options existed.”

I swallowed. “Then whose child is Ethan?”

Mara shook her head. “I promised Jack I wouldn’t tell you who Ethan was.”

“Maybe. But he wanted you to decide whether you wanted to keep looking. He didn’t want me putting another responsibility in your lap the week he died.”

“Did he have another family?”

“That’s exactly the question Jack made me promise not to answer.”

“It means if you want the answer, you have to keep looking.”