I sat in shock at his words. Dane’s thumb gently caressed the top of my hand as he waited for my reaction. “Is she still here? How do you know for sure that she is my mother?” The questions began flooding out of me as my mind raced. Dane sighed as he pulled me close to him, I’m sure in an attempt to calm me down some. I pushed away from him, “You didn’t think you should have come to get me or brought her here to meet me?” There were so many emotions running through me that I wasn’t sure what I felt. Anger seemed to be the most prominent though. “Is she still here Dane!?” I shouted at him as I stood up. He followed, “No. She left, but she said she would return tomorrow. She wanted to talk to me first. She said it was something she needed to do before she saw you. I don’t know why, and she