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Chapter 2: She Looks Just Like You

Inside the box was a photograph.

A woman I had never seen before — young, smiling, holding a newborn baby.

On the back, in handwriting I didn't recognize, were four words:

*"She looks just like you."*

My hands were shaking.

I unlocked the bathroom door.

Caleb was still standing in the hall.

The moment he saw my face, he closed his eyes.

"Who is she?" I asked.

He didn't answer.

"Caleb.

Who is she?"

"It was before we got serious," he said quietly.

"I didn't know she was pregnant.

I swear I didn't know."

"She sent you a photo of a baby and you didn't know?"

"I never received it.

I never saw that package until tonight."

I looked down at the photograph again.

The baby had Caleb's eyes.

I had looked into those eyes every single day for fifteen years and I knew exactly what I was seeing.

"How old would she be now?" I whispered.

Caleb said nothing.

That silence told me everything.

Then my phone buzzed on the bathroom shelf.

I glanced at the screen.

It was a message from a number I didn't recognize.

*"I think it's time we finally met.

I've been looking for my father for a long time."*

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