After Losing Her Husband, a Woman Learned from a Nurse That Another Woman Had Been Visiting Him for Several Weeks – A Few Days Later, the Visitor Came to Her House and Said, ‘So You Don’t Know What He Left You, Do You?’

Her expression changed immediately.

“Jack’s wife.”

“You knew him?”

“He came to see Ethan.”

My knees nearly gave way.

“Can I see him?”

Denise studied my face.

Then stepped aside.

“Come in.”

A little boy sat on the floor building a wooden train track.

He looked up.

Dark eyes.

A stubborn cowlick.

I grabbed the back of a chair.

“Oh my God.”

Denise stepped toward me.

“Are you all right?”

“He looks like Jack.”

She glanced toward Ethan but didn’t answer.

“He does, doesn’t he?”

“I suppose a little.”

A little?

To me, the resemblance was overwhelming.

This had to be Jack’s son.

I became so convinced that I stopped considering any other explanation.

Denise gently said,

“Ethan, this is Claire.”

His face brightened.

“I know.”

I stared.

“You know me?”

“Jack showed me your picture.”

“He did?”

“And Lucy’s.”

“What did he tell you?”

“That Lucy likes dinosaurs.”

Despite