The couple who gave Leo the box behaved oddly too. They didn’t leave after dropping off the box. Instead, they gave Leo time.
When he regained his composure, they told him something that not only shocked him but me
too.
The middle–aged man was the one who spoke. He seemed like a kind man.
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Chandler. I’m Heidi’s birth father. My name is Desmond Sullivan. You can call me Desmond. This is Heidi’s birth mother, Miranda Lloyd. You can call her Miranda.
“We feel regretful. We were too late and couldn’t even meet Heidi in person. We… We…”
As he spoke, he and his wife, who claimed to be my birth parents, started choking up. Then, they told Leo the whole story in a sporadic manner.
More than 20 years ago, Miranda took me back to her hometown after giving birth to me.
On the way there, there was an accident, and she fell unconscious. When she regained consciousness, she couldn’t find me anywhere.
Meanwhile, I somehow ended up at the orphanage.
Richard and Roxanne visited the orphanage as they couldn’t conceive. So, they adopted me.
Unexpectedly, Roxanne became pregnant with Rosalie a few years later.
Given their social status then, they couldn’t send me back to the orphanage. So, they could only continue raising me.
Realization dawned upon me. It turned out the Talbots weren’t my true family. In their eyes, I’d always been a stranger.
