The Missing Piece

Valerie’s POV

My heart thundering in my ears, I stared at my fantasy man made real, and the two children who had called me their mother.

Inside of me, my emotions were a whirlwind, stirring more even with this distance than my entire evening with Reid had.

Did I know these people? How could that be, when these children were so young?

Yet, looking at them, and at the man who must have been their fa