“A future with Cora isn’t the problem, I assure you. I’m in love with her, Raymond. I love her, I love her children—” Nate broke off, his voice oddly thick. “I feel thunderstruck, every moment of the day, by how it happened. I don’t understand. But they’re mine. They’re my family. They were always meant to be.” He swallowed hard. “I belong to them.”

