MY DAUGHTER’S HIDDEN NOTE SENT ME FOUR HOURS AWAY—THEN I DISCOVERED MY FIANCÉ HAD BEEN HIDING SOMETHING TOO.
After losing my husband and my 13-year-old daughter Amelia, I spent years simply surviving.
Amelia had secretly learned crochet from my mother, whom I hadn’t spoken to in 15 years.
Years later, when I was preparing to marry Aiden, I found a note hidden inside one of Amelia’s crocheted flowers.
It said:
“Mom, please don’t be mad. I lied about crochet classes. Grandma taught me. Please find her. There’s something she needs to tell you.”
I drove four hours to my mother’s house.
But she had died nearly a year earlier.
Then her neighbor told me something that made my blood run cold.
A man named Aiden had been helping my mother before she died.
When I called my fiancé, I asked one question:
“Did you know my mother?”
He went silent.
Then he finally admitted:
“Yes. And meeting you at that coffee shop wasn’t an accident.”