"My God... she murmurs, trembling. You look so much like him.
The father jumped from his seat, his face pale.
"Not now," he says in a barely audible voice.
But the woman insists, and pronounces these words that chill the whole audience:
"Before you celebrate this day, you must know the truth about the man you call daddy.
This truth is overwhelming. His father is not his biological father. He has known it since the first evening. The note he had found did not say that he was the father: it said that he would never abandon her. And he never failed.
This woman — Elena, her mother — had lost the child's biological father in an accident just before she was born. Devastated and alone, she had entrusted her baby to the only person she still had faith in.
