A Doctor's Promise by Laura Scott

Author:Laura Scott
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781949144116
Publisher: Readscape Publishing, LLC

9

Stunned speechless, Jared blinked. It took several moments for the words to penetrate his brain.

“Are you absolutely certain?” He must have heard it wrong. Or misunderstood.

“I’m sure. Shelly’s birth name is Sharon Leigh Wilson,” Brandon repeated. “Trust me, I couldn’t make something like this up.”

Shelly was Leigh? Ty was his nephew? “I don’t understand. Shelly is a nurse. How could she have a different name?”

“Sharon legally changed her name six years ago to Shelly Bennett. Bennett is her mother’s maiden name. I have to be honest, I’m not sure I would have found her so easily if you hadn’t asked for a background check on Shelly Bennett. That’s when the red flags started going off.”

“Does it say how long she’s been a nurse?” he asked, still grappling with the news. Ty was Mark’s son. His nephew.

Shelly had once loved his younger brother.

“Looks like four and a half years. It appears she legally changed her name while in her last year of nursing. It’s not illegal to change your name, and she went through the proper channels. If you had told me that Leigh Wilson was in a nursing program, we could have found her sooner through the state licensing board.”

He hadn’t known Leigh was working her way through school. Mark had never mentioned that. All they’d known was that she worked as a cocktail waitress in Boston. Maybe if his father had hired a decent private investigator, they would have known about Shelly a long time ago.

His father. Jared ran his fingers over his hair. He needed to call his parents, let them know he found Leigh, AKA Shelly.

“Thanks, Brandon,” he finally said, breaking the silence. “I’ll send the balance of your fee today. You’ve more than earned it.”

“Let me know if you need anything else,” Brandon Rafter said.

“I will.” Jared disconnected from the line, then stared at the phone for a long moment before dialing his parents. It wasn’t too early, considering their eastern time zone, but he didn’t think they’d mind.

His mother answered on the first ring.

“Mom, are you sitting down?”

“Why, do you have bad news for me?” Her voice sounded uncertain.

“Good news for you. But I still think you’d better sit down.”

“Oh dear.” Her voice grew faint, and he imagined her sinking bonelessly into a kitchen chair. “Are you telling me what I think you’re telling me?”

Jared had to smile. “Yes. I found her. Leigh Wilson has changed her name to Shelly Bennett, and she has a five-year-old son, Tyler. I found Mark’s son.”

His mother burst into tears. Jared expected the reaction, but hearing her heartfelt sobs a thousand miles away while unable to comfort her shook him anyway.

“Really? Have you seen him? Does he look like Mark?”

“Yes, I’ve seen him, and he’s a miniature version of Mark.” Jared remembered the similar facial expressions on Ty’s face and how they’d reminded him of his brother. Why hadn’t he known on some instinctive level that Ty shared his blood? On the heels of that thought came the jarring truth.

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