Biology Didn’t Make Him a Dad — Loyalty Did

11:00 PM

Three weeks later. A Tuesday. The kind of quiet night where you can hear the refrigerator hum.

Then, a frantic pounding on my door.

My heart jumped into my throat.

I opened it to find Sarah. She looked disheveled, wild-eyed.

And clinging to her leg, looking terrified in pajamas, was Leo.

The air felt heavy. Wrong.