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Kirsten’s brother?”
    â€œOh, that’s right—that pretty girl my son Jeremy is going to marry. Max is her brother.”
    â€œRight,” Ross confirmed. And apparently because William was drawing a blank, he explained what everyone else knew. “Courtney was Max Allen’s old girlfriend. She showed up on his door with Anthony, saying he was Max’s baby. Max didn’t believe her, and it was because he brought Anthony to the attention of the authorities that we figured out that Anthony belongs to Coop.”
    â€œAh,” William said.
    Because the older man seemed to have grasped that, Ross continued. “Police in Dallas came down pretty hard on both the church’s former groundskeeper and this Courtney, looking for prior bad acts. Courtney broke down, gave enough information for the cops to use as leverage with the groundskeeper and—between the two of them—got the whole story. Apparently the groundskeeper found Anthony on the back doorstep of the church on what would have been the wedding day.”
    â€œAnd all this time we’ve been thinking that Anthony must have been in the accident with Lulu? That someone took him from the scene?” Coop said.
    Ross shrugged. “No one knew where else he might have come from.”
    â€œBut now it seems as if Lulu left him at the church?” Flint asked.
    â€œWe’re thinking that maybe she saw the announcement of Uncle William and Lily’s wedding somewhere, and thought that if she left him there that day, one of us would find him. That when we saw the medallion strung around him, we’d figure he belonged with us.”
    â€œBut none of us did find him,” Coop put in.
    â€œSo the groundskeeper took him,” Ross went on, “and pawned Anthony off on this Courtney woman. She actually got attached to the baby, which was why she wanted to make sure he got to someone she thought might do right by him when it occurred to her that she couldn’t keep him herself. That was when she went to Max Allen.”
    â€œAnd if I’m remembering right,” Kelsey interjected, “First Courtney claimed that Anthony belonged to herand Max, then her story changed and she swore Anthony was her son with the groundskeeper.”
    â€œRight. But like I said, Max Allen got suspicious,” Ross repeated. “And thanks to that and the medallion that these two less-than-upstanding citizens didn’t take from Anthony, we were able to do the DNA test that connected him with Coop.”
    â€œWe’re so lucky this worked out the way it did,” Coop said, choking up.
    â€œIt could have been so much worse,” Kelsey said.
    â€œBut he ended up with the two of you,” Flint reminded to soothe his brother and Kelsey’s fears before they got unduly out of control with what might have been.
    â€œAnthony ended up with his family,” William confirmed victoriously. “That’s all that matters.”
    â€œThat and that we have you safely back, too,” Lily put in, squeezing William’s hand on the picnic table.
    â€œEven if my memory is full of more holes than Swiss cheese,” William joked.
    They all laughed at that before assuring the older man that everything would come back in time—what Flint knew was just wishful thinking at that point.
    Then, to Kelsey, Lily said, “We shouldn’t keep you when you have so much work to do. Maybe we could just take that little peek at Anthony while he’s sleeping and we’ll get out of your way.”
    â€œI know I could use a peek at him,” Coop said, still sounding unnerved by the thought of the complicated path his son had taken to get to him.
    As everyone stood up from the picnic table, Kelsey turned to Flint and said, “Don’t get back on the roof. I have jobs for you to do with Jessie today.”
    That brought a jab of Jessie’s elbow into Kelsey’s ribs that made Flint wonder if