Ed raised his eyebrows as he came closer to me and then stopped by the side of the bed.

“Isla, I am sorry how things have turned out for us, but I honestly am trying to process all of this, as are you. Your mother is sorry as well.” he sighed and twitched his nose.

“If I knew that you were my daughter, things would have been so much more different!” he told me with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

I looked away not wanting to think about how crazy this all was. But as for my mother, well so-called mother. Where was she right now? Why was...