Xavier My composure had shattered. The disbelief wrapped coldly around me. I felt myself shutting down, going numb, as I refused to accept the truth they were trying to force-feed me. Two sons. How the hell was I supposed to process that? Two sons I never knew existed. Two little boys I’d dismissed as Adelaide’s friends. My sons. The words felt unreal. If this situation wasn’t so devastatingly serious, I might have laughed at how cliché and ridiculously unbelievable it all sounded. You couldn’t make this stuff up. After Sophia had left the room to go ‘explain things’ to her family, I stood there, stunned into silence. My thoughts scrambled into a chaotic mess, trying to grasp this madness. How the hell had such a huge part of my life unfolded right before my very eyes, and I

