Tony never imagined that dinner with Carol’s grandmother would end their romance. He met Carol in college, and they dated for three years before he proposed. Tony had already met Carol’s parents and liked them immensely. Now, he needed the matriarch’s approval. Carol reassured him that her grandmother was sweet, but the night turned disastrous.
When Tony went to fetch wine, he saw a photo in the lounge that shocked him. It showed a young couple holding a toddler with a distinctive birthmark—one identical to Tony’s. He realized the boy was him.
Tony asked Gran Emily about the photo. She revealed it was of her grandson, Karl, who was kidnapped at three. Tony, abandoned at five, had no memory of this. A DNA test confirmed Tony was Karl, making him and Carol first cousins. Heartbroken, Tony and Carol couldn’t marry but he found the family he had always longed for.
