Weeks later, they told us Livia had contacted them.

months old.

In one letter, Livia wrote that after giving birth, she wanted me so badly she dialed half my number. Then she remembered something cruel I had once said about another pregnant girl, and she hung up before the call went through.

John whispered, “Open the one for you.”

I didn’t want to.

Which meant I had to.

In the letter, Livia asked me not to punish Liam. She said she had a daughter named Rose, named after my mother, because she wanted one piece of home that did