Olivia

The next morning, it was Alexander who woke me up, and I had to lie in bed for a while thinking about what had happened. The day before had been a show of revelations: we had revealed the sex of our babies, who would both be boys; I had asked Alexander to marry me; and the icing on the cake had been the revelation that I was the true heir to the Ellsworth fortune, not Ellen; and lastly, the revelation that my mother was alive.

I stayed there for a moment, just staring at the ...