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was wondering if Faith is all right?"
    "This is nurse? You no come now. Miss Faith has fever and cough, but I fix her. She will be okay."
    Standing too far to hear the words on the other end of the phone, Kylie put her hand to her mouth and coughed. "I'm sorry, I'm not a nurse. I just wondered if she was okay." She closed her phone before the woman could answer.
    "Your friend has a little cough and fever," she said to Kylie. "But she'll be fine."
    "She's not my friend. She's my sister." Kylie took Betsy's hand and the two little girls went back to the living room.
    "I think Faith is my daughter," Shannon whispered.
    Obtaining the proof, then getting her back might prove to be the most formidable task she'd ever faced, and she wasn't sure she was up to it. Was it even the right thing to do?

     

3
    DOSED WITH VICKS AND FNRICA'S HOMEOPATHIC CONCOCTIONS, FAITH would be fine by morning, Jack thought. He tore through the books on the shelf in his office. Blair had kept meticulous records of Faith's early years. He hadn't been good at keeping up with pictures and memorabilia since Blair's death. When he found the baby book, he dropped into the leather chair at his desk and flipped it open.
    "Mr. Jack, what you doing?" EnricaTorres his housekeeper, Faith's nanny, and an indispensable member of the family stood by his framed movie poster of John Wayne in North to Alaska. Five feet two and nearly as round as she was tall, she ruled the household with an iron hand muffled by velvet. "Something is wrong, si? Did you check Faith?"
    He took off his cowboy hat and ran his hand through his hair. "I checked on Faith a few minutes ago. You've got her on the mend, Enrica. She'll be all right after she rests. Has Wyatt come home yet?" His golden retriever had gone missing this morning. Jack had fired a ranch hand the night before, and he feared the guy had taken Wyatt as revenge.

    Enrica shook her head. Jack studied her a moment. She had been Blair's childhood nanny and never left the family. "Do you remember the night Faith was born?"
    "Si, I remember. The nurse think our Faith will die I see it on her face. But we pray and show them all a miracle." Her brow furrowed. "Something is wrong?"
    "Maybe. Do you remember anyone else in the clinic having a baby?"
    She nodded. "A young woman in the next room. She have twins. But one baby die. I hear her sobbing all night long and pray for her."
    Jack's gut gave a hot squeeze. Twins. He stared at the entries in the baby book on the desk.
    Faith Ann MacGowan. Seven pounds, seven ounces. It had been touch and go from the moment she arrived. Her Apgar scores weren't good. She was flaccid and blue. He barely saw her before Blair's aunt Verna rushed her to the nursery. He and Blair held hands and prayed for her recovery, and God delivered a miracle to their arms a few hours later. When they next saw their baby girl, she was pink and beautiful.
    But what if it was the wrong baby? Faith didn't resemble either of them.
    There was no denying his daughter looked amazingly like Shannon's little girl. And like Shannon. Blonde hair so pale it was almost white. And those striking azure eyes. A boulder formed in his throat. It wasn't just the coloring. The heart-shaped face, the set of the eyes.

    "Mr. Jack, you scaring me." Enrica put her hands on her nonexistent waist and glared at him.
    "Enrica, I saw the woman who was in the other delivery room today. She has a little girl who looks exactly like Faith. Nearly an exact copy. I couldn't tell them apart when I saw them standing together."
    Enrica's brow furrowed. "A woman call just now. She ask if Faith is sick. How she know this?"
    Shannon had called? Did she know something already? "She asked if Faith was sick?"
    Enrica nodded. "Like she already know."
    Maybe her daughter was sick too. He wanted to bury the questions, ignore the possibilities. But he knew Shannon wouldn't let it lie. He'd seen the fear and speculation in her eyes. She would poke around until she