Overwhelmed

Miho turned to Dominic, ​

"So, it would seem...that Baron is your long lost son."

"I'm so sorry, that I had mistakenly assumed that his parents had both been killed in the attack."

"By taking Baron home with me that day, I deprived you of your son all these years....and him of his father."

The enormity of the situation had hit her hard.  "I am so sorry....."

Dominic tried to comfort her. "Don't think like that. You saved his life. I didn't return for several weeks, and if you hadn't found him that day, he'd surely have died there inside the chest under the rubble. So you saved his life."

"But I didn't even try searching to see if the baby had any surviving family or relatives." Miho continued.

"You have to stop thinking like this.  It's totally understandable with the horrific scene you faced, that you'd assume both his parents had been killed. But you saved my son's life.

​Yes, I grieved his loss, and he grew up never knowing who his real parents were.  But that's all in the past now."

"It's a miracle, after all this time, to discover that my son is still alive."

"And that he was raised to become such a wonderful young man, by the very woman I love."

Baron had remained silent, in shock at the news...and got up....

Miho turned to her son, "Baron, my love, this is your father."

"Dominic is your father..... and....you are his son."

Naomi sat in silence watching the drama unfold.

Baron approached the chest to take a look for himself.

"Baron, you know this is the chest I found you in so long ago."

"When you were little you always loved hearing the story about how I found and rescued you. And we always wondered what the initials A and D stood for."

"Now it turns out that the chest I found you in belonged to Dominic and his wife."

"He and his wife Amelia were your real parents."

It all seemed too much to take in.   Then Dominic reached out to Baron, "I think we need to talk."

Baron was lost for words.

"Come take a walk with me.."