hallway.
A nurse had temporarily asked Daniel to hold their newborn while the staff handled the crisis.
Then I entered the room.
I had been crying and smiling. Daniel had not slept in two days, and instead of stopping me, he had allowed me to believe the child was my grandson.
“Where was your real baby?” I asked.
“With Elise,” Nora replied.
Elise had carried their son for nine months. But three weeks before the delivery, her husband had died in a car accident.
She still honored the agreement.
However, after giving birth, overwhelmed by grief, she begged Daniel and Nora for one final day with the baby.
“She kept saying she knew he wasn’t hers,” Nora explained. “She only wanted one day to say goodbye.”
Legally, Daniel and Nora could probably have refused.
Instead, they agreed.
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Elise was not trying to keep
