Chapter Seventeen

When Zoe saw the tears running down the man’s face, she walked to where he sat and wiped them away with her small hands. “Don’t cry, baby,” she said.

“Thank you,” Derek whispered as he stared into those beautiful blue eyes that were the exact replica of his. He almost couldn’t believe that he had reproduced an actual living, breathing human being. The thought that this little child standing in front of him was a piece of him, blew his mind as nothing else can. No amount of money can buy the feeling he was experiencing right now.

Zoe seemed to sense that the man needed comforting, so she reached out and embraced him. Derek was too overwhelmed with emotion to respond. He looked up at Rachel and saw that she too was crying silently. She nodded her head in approval and Derek tenderly gathered his daughter in his arms, hugging her closely and doing his best not to weep like a baby.

It was such a moving sight that even Rob and Taylor were wiping their eyes and sniffling. There was no doubt