Alex knew this visit was long overdue. If the paparazzi that sometimes followed him had ever gotten a picture of him with Amelia, his mother would have been angry at him. Rightly so. They talked once a week and he hadn’t get mentioned Amelia’s presence.

Isabel probably hadn’t either which was good.

This was a conversation best had in person.

He paused on the front stoop of his mother’s townhouse. She was in the middle of a senior living facility. She’d given up ...