After several agonizing seconds, Dad finally spoke.
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“Claire, Ethan has a daughter.”
I stared at him.
“A what?”
Ethan lowered his head.
“Her name is Lily. She’s seven years old.”
Seven.
We had been together for six years.
“Did you cheat on me?”
“No!” Ethan insisted. “Her mother, Megan, and I separated before we met. I didn’t know she was pregnant.”
He explained that Megan had contacted him three years earlier, revealing that he had a daughter. A DNA test confirmed Lily was his.
“And you’ve known for
