No Strings Attached

Brodie's heart clenched tight. "Did you remember something?"

"Not exactly," his mother replied, her voice tinged with uncertainty. "When the chandelier came crashing down, I had this fleeting vision of me and him together. It was gone in a blink, but I'm positive the man in it was Teo."

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Caught off guard by her son's forthright questioning, Katherine didn't know how to respond. After a pause of several seconds, she finally spoke softly, "I suppose I must have. Otherwise, why would I have saved him? Brodie, do you think I was... was a bad woman for getting involved with a married man? And what if... what if you were his child?"

Brodie had known that the question of his parentage would come up eventually. He was about to say something when a knock at the door interrupted them. He walked over and opened it to find Teo on the other side, his eyes meeting Brodie's gaze.

wanted to

in his arm. A gentle smile graced his face as he looked

hands clenched involuntarily, his emotions hidden in the shadows of his eyes. He stared at Teo for several seconds before saying, "She's

his mother, he said in a somber

tensed upon seeing the man behind her son. She adjusted her hair and

approached the bedside, placing the fruit basket on the nightstand and handing the flowers to Katherine with a sincere bow. "Katherine, I came here especially to thank you. If you hadn't shielded me, that chandelier would have crushed me, and perhaps my son

blush. Her hands were curled up under the covers. With this renewed contact, she

happened to see it. If I hadn't rushed over,

disappointment at her words, but he quickly masked it with a smile. "It seems I owe my life to you. No matter

is something I wanted to ask you, Mr. Hayes. About 25 years ago, on November 11th, there was a warehouse fire