Kate ground her teeth together as she sat on the dining table, opposite her son’s stand-in father. She had been waiting for the man since morning and it was already noon before he showed up.

Pain rippled through her back bones because of how she’d sprain it, all along. They sat there, silent. Just watching each other.

Kate’s mind was whirling in thought. What is it about this man that has a close resemblance to her son?

Oh, Gabby’s too smart for his own good and he might decide to ask them that. Anyways, that aside, she needed to know what man does. His name. Where he lives and shits...