I Adopted a 16-Year-Old Girl to Fulfill My Late Husband’s Wish – Days Later, She Whispered, ‘It’s Time You Learned Who Your Husband Really Was’

I pushed myself upright.

“You are asking me to bring a stranger into our family, legally make her my child, and you will not tell me why?”

“I will explain.”

“When?”

“Soon.”

The word frightened me more than if he had refused completely.

I studied the photograph again.

Grace had David’s dark eyes.

Or perhaps grief was making me see similarities that were not there.

“Is she yours?” I asked.

He closed his eyes.

“David, is Grace your daughter?”

A tear slid down his hollow cheek.

“Please do not make me answer that now.”