When Ben’s fiancée vanishes weeks after giving birth to their triplets, he’s left to raise three daughters alone. Nine years later, she returns with a knock at the door, and a request that threatens everything he’s rebuilt…People always said parenting would change me. But no one warned me it would begin with a note under the coffee maker and end with a daughter whispering, “Dad, we still have you.”
I was 26 and barely out of the honeymoon phase of my 20s. I had a job I didn’t hate, a secondhand crib waiting in a freshly painted nursery, and a woman I thought would be beside me for the rest of my life.Nancy wasn’t just my fiancée, she was home. We met in college, fell fast, and built a life out of inside jokes, grocery runs, and late-night conversations about what kind of people we wanted to raise.