Where It All Began

DARIO

My voice was almost a whisper now, pleading.

“Maybe I would have argued, but I would have wanted to know. Curious enough to try. Curious enough to get a DNA test, to fight for him. Why didn’t you?”

Her shoulders slumped as she let out a shaky breath.

“I just…” she said, her voice breaking, “I don’t want to blame you, Dario. But sometimes I wonder why, too. There are a lot of things that happ