“What does that mean?”

Ethan took a long breath.

Then the secret finally came out.

“Levi isn’t my biological father.”

I stared at him.

“He’s my father in every way that matters,” Ethan continued quickly. “He raised me. He was there for everything. But biologically, there was someone else.”

Sadie looked down.

“His name was Sebastian.”

I could barely process it.

“You’ve known this our entire marriage?”

“Yes.”

“And you never told me?”

Ethan looked ashamed.

“I was afraid telling you would somehow make Levi seem less important. He raised me. Sebastian was just a name Mom told me once when I was fifteen. I decided that was all he would ever be.”

Then I finally understood Ethan’s reaction to Lily.

“So when you looked at her like that… you weren’t questioning whether she was yours?”