“She was here, but she’s gone now,” Samantha Grayne had said.

“Gone where?” I asked. My heart raced when I considered the fact that she may have gone to Luke to tell him about her son – the son that I wanted to raise as my own. “Did she go to Luke?”

“That would be the smart thing, you know,” she sniffed. “But no, she didn’t. She’s not here, Kyle, and she won’t be back for a long time. I can’t tell you where she is. I feel for you, I guess, but she’s…broken. I think you broke her, even though she won’t say so, but I think you did. I won’t tell you where she is.”

She hung up on me then.