Assistant to Mr. Whitmore
They were warm, kind, strangely human despite their wealth.
For years, my parents tried for a child. Doctors told them it was impossible. But five years into their marriage, I arrived, an impossible, unexpected gift. Their only child.
My mother loves to tell the story of how Helena, Mrs. Whitmore, beamed with joy when she found out about the pregnancy. “She was pregnant with Noah at the time,” she’d smile, brushing my hair behind my ear like she still saw me as her little girl. It was strange, really, how a woman of such status insisted on being called by her first name, even by the house staff. “Mrs. Whitmore made me feel like more than what I was,” my mother would say. “She never liked the
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