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it at that, even though we parted and determined we
could never see each other again. She returned that
night. God forgive me, I hoped and prayed she would.
I even left my door open.
"She came and we had one last loving night
together, a special, precious night, Annie, for there is
no doubt in my mind as I look upon you now that
your birth was a direct result of that stolen night of
love."
My tears were streaming down my face
throughout his tale, but when he said those final lines,
my heart paused and Luke squeezed my hand as
though he had been abruptly woken from a deep
sleep.
"What . . . what are you saying?"
"I'm saying you are my daughter, Annie; my
daughter, not Logan's. I'm saying you and Luke are
not blood related. Fanny and Heaven were not sisters
and Logan was not your father, although I'm sure he
loved you as much as any father could love a daughter, even though deep in his heart he might have
known.
"Believe me, I agonized over telling you all
this, for I feared you would think less of your mother
because of it, but I finally concluded Heaven would
have wanted me to tell you so that you and Luke
would not lose one another as she and I did. "If there is truly a curse on the Tattertons, it is
born out of our refusal to be honest with our hearts,
and I will not let that happen to you.
"Lift the dark shadows from Farthy; shine a
light of life over it, Annie. Understand and forgive
